“We are required by law to cover the costs of clean up and respond, but beyond that we would do that because it’s the right thing to do,” Duffy said. The west leg can operate, but the east leg remains shutdown until the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, a federal agency that regulates and monitors oil pipeline operators, grants reopening. Yet despite Enbridge’s immense, ongoing clean-up operation, which has spanned more than three years, cost over a billion dollars, and removed significantly more oil from the river than the company will admit it spilled, those living in Enbridge’s sacrifice zone have more questions than answers—even as most areas of the river have been re-opened for public use. Gov. And there’s no way in heck that anybody here in Michigan should be held liable or take any accountability for it,” Ritter said. Former oil spill cleanup worker on mission against Canadian tar sands fuel, Contractors to make millions off coal ash spill cleanup, Gulf residents, ecology facing deadly aftershocks of BP’s oil spill cover-up, BP puts oil spill cleanup into high gear on Mississippi’s barrier islands, Scientific conference explores broad impact of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill. “When I did get a chance to get close to one of those trucks it had a real strong herbicide, almost pesticide, chemical smell to it,” Ritter explained. But this explanation doesn’t entirely absolve the company, and contradicts their initial comment that no chemicals were used “in any part of the clean-up” operation. He explained that “the spraying that you described was in fact water that had no added chemicals into it… we didn’t even use fresh water for that… I did also ask around about this dumping of a sand-like substance into the river. Enbridge contracted S.E.T. Enbridge says the underwater section, laid in 1953, is in good condition and has never leaked.

“Enbridge does pledge to take full responsibility for the cleanup and all costs for any incident that would happen in Michigan or really anywhere along our pipeline system,” said Enbridge spokesperson Ryan Duffy. It’s been three and a half years since Enbridge’s Line 6B pipeline ruptured in Marshall, Michigan, leaking more than 843,000 gallons of diluted tar sands bitumen into the Kalamazoo River. The state of Michigan wants Enbridge to promise it will cover costs from a potential oil spill in the channel that links two of the Great Lakes. The agreement said Enbridge Energy would pay for the more than 1.8 billion dollars cleanup costs in case of a spill. Whitmer Campaigns for Biden-Harris in West Michigan, Traverse City Neighborhood Revamps Halloween, Amazing Northern Michigan Homes: Deepwater Point, Chippewa Co. Deputies Need Help Finding Wanted Kincheloe Man, Nessel, Benson Clear-Up Voting Misconceptions, Group Discovers 10,000 Year Old Archaeological Find in Straits of Mackinac, Latest Updates: Possible COVID-19 Exposure Sites in Northern Michigan, 3 Schools Closed, 1 Moved to Remote Learning Due to COVID-19 Cases, Local COVID-19 Testing Events Halted After Michigan National Guard Members Test Positive, Wexford Co. And I am fairly confident saying that same thing with diluents and tar sands, just based on the nature of the chemicals involved,” she said. “If Enbridge Inc. is really committed to providing financial assurance to the people of Michigan, they’ll enter into a written agreement to that effect,” said DNR Director, Dan Eichinger in a statement. Attorney Advertising - Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Essentially, they want an agreement that will hold up in court. For Craig Ritter, like Michelle Barlond-Smith who is committed to exposing the full health impact of this accident, there was never any question that the company must be forced to own up to the mess that they’ve made. Enbridge should be required to post a cash bond (or prepaid insurance policy) equivalent to the costs of a clean up in case of a Line 5 spill into the Great Lakes. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that “180,000 gallons of Line 6B oil (plus or minus 100,000 gallons) remain in the river bottom sediment.” They have ordered Enbridge to dig up the rest of the recoverable oil (“about 12,000 – 18,000 gallons”) and finish cleaning up altogether by December 31st, 2013, leaving the remaining oil behind to collect over time in “sediment traps.” Enbridge has applied for their deadline to be pushed back until March 2014, but their application was deniedafter several earlier extensions were granted. July 17, 202012:55 PM The Canadian Press0 Comments. Enbridge owns the controversial Line 5 pipeline that carries crude oil and natural gas liquids under the Straits of Mackinac. Photos courtesy of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. The sticky oil, laden with chemical additives, flowed into the Talmadge Creek, a Kalamazoo tributary, and surrounding lands. “For me, personally, I will not go in that river without protective gear,” she said. Michelle Barlond-Smith, a former resident of the heavily impacted Baker Trailer Park, told me that “a lot of us thought they were hiding and covering up stuff, trying to bury it, the oil. So when she visited Marshall, Michigan, she wasn’t surprised to see the same host of health problems that she encountered after the Gulf spill.

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