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June 23, 2016

Enbridge spending $7M to prepare in case 63-year-old Mich. pipeline bursts

  • Environmentalists want Enbridge's Line 5 shut down or rerouted from a Michigan waterway, contending the aging pipeline is too great a danger.
    • By JOHN FLESHER
    AP Environmental Writer

    TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A Canadian company that owns twin oil pipelines in the area where lakes Huron and Michigan converge said Monday it will spend $7 million over the next two years on additional equipment that could be deployed quickly in the event of a spill, while insisting prospects are remote that it ever will be needed there.

    Enbridge Energy, based in Calgary, Alberta, said its purchases would include skimming and containment devices that would help crews recover oil quickly in open water and even during icy conditions in the Straits of Mackinac, a nearly 5-mile-wide waterway that separates Michigan's two peninsulas.


     
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