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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 ...
[29] [30] Enbridge denied it was a problem, saying that the company "absolutely rejects the allegation that human trafficking will increase in Minnesota as a result of the Line 3 replacement project." [26] Two contractors employed by Enbridge were arrested during a sex trafficking sting in Itasca County, Minnesota in February 2021.
In 1991, Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline spilled 1.7 million gallons of oil in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and the Prairie River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. [13] It was the largest inland spill of oil in U.S. history. [ 14 ]
Enbridge Energy, headquartered in Calgary, Canada, owns the Line 5 oil pipeline and is North America's largest pipeline company, transporting about 125 million gallons of crude oil and liquids ...
In November 2020, Enbridge won permission from Minnesota to replace an aging pipeline carrying Canadian oil through the state, doubling its capacity at the time. ... New fire develops near Sherman ...
September 22 – An 8,810 barrels (1,401 m 3) crude oil spill from a Lakehead (now Enbridge) pipeline near Plummer, Minnesota was caused by an excavator hitting that pipeline. [224] October 1 – A break in a BP pipeline near the Mississippi Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast, spilled about 155,000 gallons of crude oil. [225]
The fire broke out Saturday evening on the 4200 block of Schultz Road in Rice Lake. ... Dog dead, man injured in northern Minnesota house fire. BringMeTheNews. January 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM.
April 20 – A series of explosions, and a fire, struck a Sunoco pipeline terminal in Toledo, Ohio. Some nearby residents fled their homes, and telephone service was disrupted. [194] [195] May 11 – 2 explosions and a following fire killed 7 people, injured 19 others, and destroyed 3 buildings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Soil erosion under ...