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The Enbridge Line 5 pipeline, which was responsible for the 2010 Kalamazoo River oil spill, had its 1953 easement revoked by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in November 2020 due to concerns over the potential impact of a spill to the Great Lakes. [12] [13] [14] The Line 3 pipeline was built by the Lakehead Pipeline Company (now Enbridge) in
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 ...
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 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 ...
The Wisconsin DNR announced Thursday it approved Enbridge's permit, surely setting off backlash from environmental groups.
The controversy over Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline, which runs through the Great Lakes, is complex. We answer 10 questions to get you caught up.
Tara Houska speaking with Mylene Vialard, a U.S. protester for the Line 3 pipeline who was arrested in 2021. Houska also fought against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and lived in the Standing Rock encampment for six months. [5]
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 ...