BREAKING: Oil leak on massive pipeline pushing tar sands through the Great Lakes

[appleannie1]

Enbridge Energy has just reported that their Alberta Clipper tar sands pipeline is being shut down because they have spilled over 5000 gallons of oil. The spill happened in Saskatchewan, Canada, and it is not yet clear what has caused the leak. Enbridge has reported that the spill occurred at one of their pumping stations but some of the oil has sprayed onto nearby private property.

This latest spill is yet another example on why Enbridge should focus a lot more time on pipeline safety instead of rushing and pushing through massive amounts of pipeline expansion projects throughout Canada and the US.

In fact, Enbridge is currently trying to gain approval in both canada and the US to expand the Alberta Clipper pipeline. They want to increase pressure on this pipeline from 450,000 barrels per day to 880,000 barrels per day!

http://surfgreatlakes.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/breaking-oil-leak-on-massive-pipeline-pushing-tar-sands-through-the-great-lakes/

[NMDemDist2]

1. they have re-opened it

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2014/01/19/21409231.html

Enbridge restarted its 450,000 barrel-per-day Alberta Clipper pipeline after an oil spill at a Saskatchewan pump station Saturday.

The estimated 125-barrel spill was mostly limited to the Rowatt pump station, located south of Regina, though some windborne oil sprayed onto the property of a nearby landowner, Enbridge spokesman Graham White told Reuters. The company said the spray had been picked up.

Enbridge said regulatory and provincial officials, including emergency response officials, were notified of the spill and that an investigation was being conducted by Enbridge and the National Energy Board.

[truedelphi]

6. Protest the tar sands projects, or the Pipelines, or

The fracking, and face two years in jail.

Destroy the environment through projects like tar sands, the Pipelines, or fracking and face the ability to become a billionaire.

[PatrynXX]

11. and break Native American Treaty

which is grounds for war.. oh what the heck..

[L0oniX]

12. ...not to mention ...the animal nations.

[Android3.14]

2. The problems with trains, oil pipes and credit card breaches sound like a computer virus

Weird.

[HuskyOffset]

3. Did they . . .

. . . charge the private landowner for the oil they gifted to him/her? I mean, hey, that stuffs not free.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

4. He will be billed.

[grahamhgreen]

8. Jailed for theft and his land seized;)

[corkhead]

5. The invisible hand will teach them a lesson when we stop buying Enbridge (TM) brand oil

[kelliekat44]

7. This ought to bury Keystone. nt

[bvar22]

9. It should,

....but it won't.

[NJCher]

10. Nebraska gov is in their pocket

Makes Chrispie look like a small-time hood.


Cher

[truebrit71]

14. Sadly I fear you are right...

...besides even if Obama grows the requisite spine to say no, the next rethuglican president will rubber-stamp it at the inauguration...

[Judi Lynn]

13. K & R. n/t