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Kalamazoo river oil spill

Enbridge Northern Gateway website: diluted bitumen "floats"

@EnbridgeNGP tweeted Vancouver-based writer John Vaillant, Bill Hillier and others with a link to a newly updated page on the Northern Gateway website titled: "Diluted bitumen in sea water -- some...

Enbridge Kalamazoo oil spill victim holds community meeting spellbound

A victim of Enbridge's Kalamazoo oil spill recalls how deeply communities were scarred by the disastrous 2010 oil leak.

How safe are 2.5 million miles of pipelines?

At 6:11 p.m. on September 6, 2011, San Bruno, Calif. 911 received an urgent call. A gas station had just exploded and a fire with flames reaching 300 feet was raging through the neighborhood. The...

Enbridge shuts down US-Canada heavy oil pipeline after spill in Wisconsin

Enbridge Inc. rushed to shut down another main pipeline in Grand Marsh, Wisconsin after an oil spill on Friday. The pipeline is called Line 14, and carries 318,000 barrels per day on the major...