Enbridge Gets Michigan Okay To Replace Line 6B

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July 12, 2013: I understand CBR vs pipeline is not an "either/or" issue or a "all or nothing" issue, but the runaway freight train that killed 50 people and decimated a small Canadian town puts into perspective a pipeline spill. Right, wrong, or indifferent, sentient beings can sort this out. That's the difference between sentient beings and activist environmentalists. The runaway freight train should give top cover to President O'Bama if he elects to approve the Keystone XL, though whatever his decision is, it will be seen as arbitrary and capricious by those who disagree with him. In fact, his decision will be strictly political, as well it should be for a politician. That's why he is called a politician, and not a statesman, not a leader, not a businessman, not a scientists, and not a visionary. 

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Enbridge Energy Partners LP received approval from the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) to construct and operate a replacement to its Line 6B pipeline running between Griffith, Ind., and Marysville, Mich. The project consists of 110 miles of 36-in. OD pipeline and 50 miles of 30-in. OD pipeline, all of which replace certain 30-in. OD segments of its existing crude oil and petroleum pipeline.

The US National Transportation Safety Board last year ascribed Line 6B’s 2010 failure and spill of 840,000 gal of crude into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River to pervasive organizational failures at Enbridge combined with weak federal regulations.