I found this piece on the deceptive PR by Enbridge.  Sadly, the article doesn’t go far enough and mention the pipeline coming through northern Indiana….just a stone’s throw away from Lake Michigan.

Three years?  Three freaking years to clean up an oil spill?  This alone should be reason enough not to trust Enbridge.  They don’t have the first clue on how to clean up after their many messes.  And they really don’t care….it costs money to clean up and they really don’t care about the environment, much to their protestations.

“We clearly can not accomplish all of that in the remaining weeks of 2013,” says Jason Manshum, an Enbridge spokesman. He blames the company’s difficulty in getting a local permit for a dredge pad near the Morrow Lake delta.   The company wanted to dump sludge from the river on the pad site.    People and businesses near the site fought against it.

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I don’t blame the folks fighting against having the sludge placed nearby.  See…Enbridge doesn’t have a plan in place for what to do when a leak happens.  I say dump the sludge on the properties of the Enbridge execs and let them deal with it.  I have a feeling that if this was the law, Enbridge and all the other energy companies would suddenly change their myopic views.

Last night, the Kalamazoo Board of Commissioners agreed to let Enbridge use part of a county park as part of the company’s plan to dredge a section of the river near Morrow Lake.

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<sigh>

Yeah…let’s contaminate a park…./snark

Note in the comments that pipelines are not subject to aggressive inspections or inspectors….