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The Line 3 pipeline was built by the Lakehead Pipeline Company (now Enbridge) in the 1960s. It was the source of the Line 3 oil spill in Grand Rapids, Minnesota , the worst inland oil spill in U.S. history, which spilled 1.7 million gallons of crude into a tributary of the Mississippi River . [ 15 ]
The Line 3 pipeline was the origin of a 1.3 million gallon oil spill in Argyle in 1973. [14] On March 3, 1991, the Line 3 pipeline ruptured in a wetland near Grand Rapids, Minnesota, spilling 1.7 million gallons of crude oil into the Prairie River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. It was the largest inland oil spill in the history of the ...
The Line 3 oil spill was a 1.7 million gallon crude oil spill in Minnesota on March 3, 1991. The Line 3 pipeline, then owned by the Lakehead Pipeline Company (now Enbridge), ruptured on a wetland near Grand Rapids, Minnesota, spilling oil into the Prairie River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. It was the largest inland oil spill in the ...
Mar. 19—GRAND FORKS — Gina Peltier was arrested in Minnesota's Clearwater County while praying on a bridge in protest of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement project. That was last August.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline, owned by the Canadian government, is an existing pipeline system that transports oil from Alberta's tar sands to the British Columbia coast for export. The proposed expansion of the pipeline aims to nearly triple its capacity, allowing for a significant increase in the transportation of oil.
Line 5 has leaked 35 times in its roughly 70-year tenure and released a total of more than 1.13 million gallons of oil into the environment, according to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials ...
September 3 – A Mid-Valley Pipeline Co. line was ruptured by pipeline work, in Cygnet, Ohio. Efforts to contain the crude were unable to prevent some of it from entering the Portage River. [14] September 12 – An oil pipeline ruptured and burned while it was being repaired at an oil storage Terminal in Piney Point, Maryland. One worker was ...
Two pipeline operators have agreed to pay a $12.5 million civil penalty related to crude oil spills in Montana and North Dakota. Belle Fourche Pipeline Company and Bridger Pipeline LLC will pay ...