Enbridge pipeline leak history

From an email:

Here’s some details of the horrid leak history of Enbridge Pipeline, the company that just spilled ~800,000 of crude oil into a river in Michigan.

Note that this is NOT all inclusive of Enbridge’s ruptures!

And, an Enbridge VP Spoke on Capitol Hill a few weeks ago about pipeline safety:

http://transportation.house.gov/Media/file/Rail/20100715/R%20Adams.pdf

He stated:

“Going back to a prescriptive “one-size-fits-all” mandate treating all areas along the pipeline and all hazards as equal misses the premise of
risk-management that considers both the likelihood and consequences of an incident.”

I’d love to know if that Enbridge rupture point was a HCA.

FYI, look at Rick K.’s Testimony here at the same Hearing:

http://transportation.house.gov/Media/file/Rail/20100715/Kuprewicz%20SubCommittee%20Testimony.pdf

I think that Enbridge needs to be declared a 100% Hazardous Facility, like Colonial Pipeline was in 1996 or so. It lead to a big improvement in Colonial’s safety.

To XXXXXX

…Myself, I’m a pipeline safety activist. Enbridge has had a troubling history of leaks & accidents over the years. They had ruptures from bad
batches of steel pipe in in 1974, 1979, 1982, 1986,1989, 1991 and 2002:

http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2004/PAR0401.pdf

Note that the 2002 Minn. leak was 6,000 barrels (252,000 gallons) of crude oil, a third of what was released in Michigan.

They recently had a leak in Canada on March 31, 2010, that spilled about 1,500 liters of crude oil. In January 2010, they had a pipeline rupture
that spilled 126,000 gallons of crude oil in North Dakota.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/147254/

In November 2007, 2 workers In Minn. were killed while repairing an Enbridge pipeline:

http://www.businessnorth.com/kuws.asp?RID=2538

http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/reports/enforce/documents/320085011/320085011_nopv%20pcp%20pco_10012008_text.pdf?nocache=1062

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