Kinder Morgan ordered to pay $150,000 in Burnaby oil spill
By Mike Raptis, The Province, November 10, 2011
A judge ordered oil giant Kinder Morgan and two other B.C.-based companies Thursday to each pay $150,000 in the 2007 rupturing of a crude-oil pipeline in Burnaby.
Vandals spill 30,000 litres of oil, water
By Matt Dykstra, Edmonton Sun, October 11, 2011
Fairview RCMP are looking for some mischief-makers who mucked about with some oil pipeline valves last week, spilling 30,000 litres of oil and water.
Pipeline Spills Put Safeguards Under Scrutiny
By DAN FROSCH and JANET ROBERTS, New York Times, September 9, 2011
DENVER — This summer, an Exxon Mobil pipeline carrying oil across Montana burst suddenly, soiling the swollen Yellowstone River with an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude just weeks after a company inspection and federal review had found nothing seriously wrong.
Protest set for site of 2007 Burnaby pipeline rupture
By Grant Granger, Burnaby NewsLeader, August 05, 2011
A Vancouver-based environmental group intends to use the Burnaby site of a dramatic oil pipeline rupture four years ago to emphasize its opposition to a planned expansion by Kinder Morgan.
Pembina Pipeline reports oil leak near Swan Hills
By Dave Cooper, edmontonjournal.com, July 20, 2011
Pipeline has been shut in, cleanup has started
EDMONTON - Pembina Pipeline Ltd. (PPL:TSX) estimates 1,300 barrels of crude oil has leaked into the pipeline right of way and a nearby unnamed creek about five kilometres north of Swan Hills.
Putting spin on the spill: ExxonMobil downplays extent of Yellowstone pipeline leak
Editorial, The Missoulian, July 8, 2011
The oil may have stopped gushing from a ruptured pipeline beneath Yellowstone River, but Montanans' concerns about the potential damage from this spill are as yet unabated.
Unfortunately, Exxon Mobil's response has done very little to stanch these concerns. In fact, the company's recent reassurances have been less than reassuring.
The cost of oil on B.C.’s priceless coast
By Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee, Vancouver Sun, June 18, 2011
If the Enbridge Northern Gateway project is approved, an estimated 225 supertankers a year would enter Kitimat to load about 318 million litres (two million barrels) of oil for shipment to American and Asian markets (“Pipelines to prosperity,” Harvey Enchin, Issues & Ideas, June 16). Loaded tankers would pass directly through Wright Sound, a body of water with more than 5,000 vessels moving through it annually. More than 400,000 vessel movements occur annually on the B.C. coast, so it is not surprising that accidents are common, including collisions, groundings and fires on board. Even vessels with state-of-the-art navigational equipment are vulnerable.
Deep Water - The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling
Report to the President, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, January 2011
Oil industry outlines cleanup strategy for Arctic spill
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE, Globe and Mail, Jun. 09, 2011
As the oil and gas industry works to convince Canada’s energy regulator that it can safely drill in the Arctic’s deep waters, it is proposing some creative – and controversial – methods to clean up spills in sea ice: using fires set from helicopters to burn oil and even the propeller blades of icebreakers to disperse it.
Norman Wells spilled 90 barrels
Calgary Herald, June 4, 2011
RUPTURE . Enbridge Inc. said Friday a leak on its Norman Wells oil pipeline spilled at least 90 barrels in the remote Northwest Territories, substantially more than the four barrels originally reported.
A year of Canadian oil pipeline ruptures
Reuters, May 10, 2011
TransCanada Corp TRP.TO said it expects to restart its Keystone oil line this weekend following a spill, the latest in a series of pipeline incidents that have raised questions about the industry's safety.
Here is a list of ruptures over the past year on pipelines that carry Canadian crude.
2011
4.5 million litres of crude oil spill from northern Alberta pipeline
By Hanneke Brooymans, Edmonton Journal, May 4, 2011
EDMONTON — About 100 people are cleaning up 4.5 million litres of oil, the biggest crude oil pipeline spill in Alberta since 1975.
Enbridge expected to face criminal charges over Michigan spill
Washington Independent, March 9, 2011
The former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental crimes section said Friday that the oil and gas company Enbridge will likely face criminal charges over its 2010 Michigan pipeline rupture.
Enbridge denies responsibility for oil spill
By Eartha Jane Melzer, Michigan Messenger, January 31, 2011
Refuses to pay some claims of property damage, business loss, health problems
Despite public promises to compensate residents for losses associated with the summer oil spill, in Calhoun county court Enbridge is arguing that it is not legally liable for damages from the spill.
Six months after oil spill, Enbridge is still cleaning up along the Kalamazoo River
By Fritz Klug, The Kalamazoo Gazette, January 30, 2011
MARSHALL — Every day that John LaForge goes to work at his excavation and trash business, he sees the house next door where he and his wife lived for 27 years.
UVic study: Oil spill would hit taxpayers hard
By Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun, January 14, 2011
Environmental Law Centre says compensation on civil liability for damage tops out at $1.3B
Oil-spill compensation from industry is just a drop in the bucket compared to what would be needed to recover from a catastrophic spill off B.C.'s coast, according to a new report.
Feds sue BP, other companies over oil spill
By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY, Houston Chronicle, Dec. 16, 2010
Fines of up to $4,300 a barrel, cleanup costs, other damages sought
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday sued BP and eight other companies in legal action that could force the firms to pay tens of billions of dollars in fines, cleanup costs and economic damages related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Ottawa lax on climate change issues, report says
GLORIA GALLOWAY, Globe and Mail, Dec. 07, 2010
"The Canadian Coast Guard is poorly prepared to deal with spills from ships and the monitoring of the country’s water resources is inadequate."
Oil from BP spill moved faster than expected through Gulf's food web, study
Seth Borenstein, Washington— The Associated Press, Nov. 12, 2010
Scientists say they have for the first time tracked how certain nontoxic elements of oil from the BP spill quickly became dinner for plankton, entering the food web in the Gulf of Mexico.
Oil spill still poisoning wildlife years later, native band charges
MARK HUME, Globe and Mail, Nov. 11, 2010
Eight years ago, a pipeline ruptured in a remote section of northeastern British Columbia, spilling a thick, viscous mixture of more than 1,000 barrels of oil and saltwater into a boggy area near Doig River.
EPA says it will fully investigate oil on Kalamazoo River
By Todd A. Heywood, Michigan Messenger, November 9, 2010
Agency, company deny cover up, say remaining oil is expected
BATTLE CREEK — As the 106th day of the Enbridge Energy oil spill came to a close, residents gathered to hear the fifth community update from the Environmental Protection Agency about the clean up efforts.
Enbridge shuts, reopens U.S. Midwest oil line
By Jeffrey Jones, Reuters, Nov 3, 2010
* Sources say Line 6A shut late Tuesday as a precaution
* Pipeline placed back into service Wednesday afternoon
* Line was shut for eight days in September (Updates with pipeline restart)
CALGARY, Alberta, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Enbridge Inc (ENB.TO) shut down one of its major oil pipelines in the U.S. Midwest for the second time in two months to investigate high-pressure alarms, the company said on Wednesday.
Third Enbridge line springs leak
Nathan VanderKlippe, Globe and Mail, Sep. 13, 2010
A third Enbridge Inc. (ENB-T51.88-0.62-1.18%) pipeline has been hit with a small leak.
Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Not Worth the Gamble
Chris Genovali, Huffington Post, September 10, 2010
With the preliminary hearings having commenced for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency's Joint Review Panel on Enbridge Inc.'s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta's tar sands to the British Columbia coast, it would be illustrative for British Columbians to look south of the border.
