Hearing Set On Enbridge Pipeline Replacement Plan
A hearing has been set on Enbridge Inc.'s plan to replace more sections of a pipeline that leaked more than 800,000 gallons of oil in southern Michigan last summer.
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A hearing has been set on Enbridge Inc.'s plan to replace more sections of a pipeline that leaked more than 800,000 gallons of oil in southern Michigan last summer.
There are no long-term health effects of submerged oil from last year's spill in southern Michigan's Kalamazoo River, a new study from the state says.
Lawmakers are considering plans that could spur major upgrades to the nation's aging energy pipelines, driven by a string of recent oil spills, deadly natural gas blasts and what they call federal regulators' inaction.
Oil that has settled at the bottom of the Kalamazoo River is the largest cleanup challenge remaining from a southern Michigan spill of more than 800,000 gallons that occurred nearly a year ago.
The last of the turtles that were cared for following last summer's oil spill in southern Michigan have been released into the Kalamazoo River.
Officials say they don't know when the Kalamazoo River in southwestern Michigan will reopen for public use as the cleanup of last summer's oil spill continues.
Work is expected to begin next week to replace a pipeline under the St. Clair River.
The clean-up continues from last July's oil spill which dumped more than 800,000 gallons from an Enbridge oil pipeline into the Kalamazoo River near Marshall.
