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Questions Raised Following Enbridge Energy Partners Spill
January 15 2010 | News Articles | Smithers Interior News
An Enbridge oil spill just south of the Canadian border has raised some concerns over what will happen should the Enbridge northern pipeline project from Kitimat to Alberta go through.
“Enbridge simply cannot prevent oil spills from its pipelines,” stated Jennifer Rice, Chair of Friends of Wild Salmon. “And in our watersheds, even one oil spill of this magnitude is unacceptable.”
Enbridge recorded the spill of approximately 3,000 barrels, or 126,000 gallons, on Jan. 8. The spill was detected through their control centre which monitors all of Enbridge’s approximate 11,000 kilometres of pipelines 24/7 electronically. The system noted a sudden drop in pressure on line 2b on it’s Lakehead System in North Dakota at approximately 11:30 p.m. CT. VP of Public and Government Affairs for Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Steve Greenaway said that within moments the pipeline was shut off on either side, and crews were sent out to the area in question.
“The system has worked as we expected it would, in the sense that it was detected immediately, it was shut down immediately, the valves were turned off immediate, and the clean up began early Saturday morning,” Greenaway said.
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