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This fire, described by a spokesperson for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety as a "big fire, not an explosion", killed two workers and caused a $4 per barrel spike in oil prices the following day. The 34-inch (860 mm) pipeline carries crude from Saskatchewan to the Chicago area. [17]
Grand Rapids was the site of another Enbridge oil spill on February 19, 2004 when the company's Line 2 pipeline was found to have leaked at least 42,000 gallons of crude oil, affecting the area's groundwater. [11] In 2021, on the 30-year anniversary of the pipeline disaster, people gathered at the Prairie River for a march near the spill site. [12]
The Kalamazoo River oil spill occurred in July 2010 when a pipeline operated by Enbridge (Line 6B) burst and flowed into Talmadge Creek, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, Michigan. A 6-foot (1.8 m) break in the pipeline resulted in one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history (the largest was the 1991 spill near Grand ...
Enbridge Inc, Canada's largest pipeline operator, said on Wednesday that it had extinguished a fire on a natural gas line in northern British Columbia that prompted the evacuation of about 100 ...
In Michigan, Enbridge's Line 6B pipeline burst in 2010 causing one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history. The pipeline has since been replaced and is now known as Line 78. Cleanup cost ...
A federal judge has given Enbridge three years to shut down parts of an oil pipeline that crosses reservation land and ordered the energy company to pay a Native American tribe more than $5 ...
July 26 – The Kalamazoo River oil spill: Enbridge Energy Partners LLP , reported that a 30-inch (760 mm) pipeline belonging to Enbridge burst in Marshall, Michigan. Enbridge had numerous alarms from the affected Line 6B, but controllers thought the alarms were from phase separation, and the leak was not reported to Enbridge for 17 hours.
There was no fire. The break was 5 feet from a pipeline marking sign. [38] [39] March 3 – A Lakehead (now Enbridge) crude oil pipeline, near Grand Rapids, Minnesota, ruptured. More than 1,700,000 gallons of crude spilled onto a wetland and the Prairie River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. About 1,672,000 gallons of oil were eventually ...