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Entries in michigan oil spill (1)

Friday
Jul302010

"Safety is a top priority for Enbridge"

Gee, where have we heard that before?

The oil company responsible for this week's 819,000-gallon spill into the Kalamazoo River has a history of safety issues, according to federal regulators.

LINK (Via: CBS News)

This would be the same company that wants to build two pipelines across critical watersheds as part of the Alberta tar sands project.

U.S. regulators warned a subsidiary of Enbridge in January that it wasn't adequately monitoring the corrosion of a Michigan pipeline that leaked an estimated 3.8 million litres of oil into the Kalamazoo River this week.

LINK (Via: CTV NEWS)