Relevant Reports
Read this recently completed State of Michigan report about Enbridge finances, insurance, and liability for a spill:
Click here for the report
Read about security threats to pipelines:
Cybersecurity
TSA Report
Also, please read the National Academies of Science report on diluted bitumen and its interaction with water. It’s scary but important information. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/21834/spills-of-diluted-bitumen-from-pipelines-a-comparative-study-of
Inform yourself about what is happening in Canada, particularly in the tar sands
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2016-02-01/once-unstoppable-tar-sands-now-battered-from-all-sides
Please read about how the glut of oil could create systemic risk in the markets:
http://www.ibtimes.com/oil-glut-2016-financial-crisis-lurking-hobbled-energy-market-2289326
Please inform yourself about why the federal regulatory agencies have been ineffective: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/the-little-pipeline-agency-that-couldnt-217227
Note that Enbridge Line 3 is under increased scrutiny from the new government in Canada: http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/01/29/news/enbridge-line-3-pipeline-could-be-next-face-tougher-scrutiny
Please pay attention to the market for renewables. In conversations about the pipelines, ask people why Minnesota should risk its water resources for infrastructure that only seems urgent for the pipeline company’s bottom line.
http://pgjonline.com/2016/01/15/27-billion-barrels-worth-of-oil-projects-now-canceled/
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/27/3712181/renewables-surpass-coal-2030/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-14/solar-and-wind-just-did-the-unthinkable
Read this recently completed State of Michigan report about Enbridge finances, insurance, and liability for a spill:
Click here for the report
Read about security threats to pipelines:
Cybersecurity
TSA Report
Also, please read the National Academies of Science report on diluted bitumen and its interaction with water. It’s scary but important information. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/21834/spills-of-diluted-bitumen-from-pipelines-a-comparative-study-of
Inform yourself about what is happening in Canada, particularly in the tar sands
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2016-02-01/once-unstoppable-tar-sands-now-battered-from-all-sides
Please read about how the glut of oil could create systemic risk in the markets:
http://www.ibtimes.com/oil-glut-2016-financial-crisis-lurking-hobbled-energy-market-2289326
Please inform yourself about why the federal regulatory agencies have been ineffective: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/the-little-pipeline-agency-that-couldnt-217227
Note that Enbridge Line 3 is under increased scrutiny from the new government in Canada: http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/01/29/news/enbridge-line-3-pipeline-could-be-next-face-tougher-scrutiny
Please pay attention to the market for renewables. In conversations about the pipelines, ask people why Minnesota should risk its water resources for infrastructure that only seems urgent for the pipeline company’s bottom line.
http://pgjonline.com/2016/01/15/27-billion-barrels-worth-of-oil-projects-now-canceled/
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/27/3712181/renewables-surpass-coal-2030/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-14/solar-and-wind-just-did-the-unthinkable
Related Background InformationEnbridge's "Safety" Record
Pipeline Failures |
Informative Blogs and Links
US Energy Self-sufficiency Pipeline 101 |
Implications for Community and Landowners
Bakken Oil / Fracking / Tar SandsRelated Concerns |
July 2002: Enbridge 34-inch diameter steel pipeline ruptured in a marsh west of Cohasset, Minnesota. To prevent 6,000 barrels (252,000 gallons) of crude oil from reaching the Mississippi River, the company set the oil on fire. The plume of smoke extended one mile high. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board blamed the rupture on “inadequate loading of the pipe for transportation.”
Michigan's Kalamazoo River cleanup - site of 2010 massive Enbridge pipeline oil spill. Imagine this on the Fishhook river! Read more about the biggest pipeline oil spill in US history. And what people are saying 4 years later - click here.