Same old Enbridge!

Here we go again—I, along with others no doubt, have been looking for that new Enbridge culture –I suggested an Enbridge Board of Directors ‘Operations Safety EPIPHANY’;ha ha my friends said;they were right!——Enbridge are big and have an huge opportunity to capitalize on North America’s booming, huge ,new oil production opportunities;Bakken,tight oil and of course bitumen—all the pipeline gang ,including Trans Canada and Kinder Morgan are planning to build pipe lines—TO EVERY WHERE! The annoying folks in BC aren’t likely to cause Enbridge to change their ways--much. I’m guessing that Enbridge could walk away from their Northern Gateway project and with only slightly ‘ripple’ on their balance sheet?

Yes all governments are desperate for revenue and our cries for safer practices are not likely to be given serious consideration —until the polls become a factor—you know that most significant item in a politicians survival handbook—‘POLLS’.Unfortunately we all love our cars,airplanes ships,etc. so the law makers (in Canada and US) have to take the lead or, in my opinion, the powerful pipe liners will just continue to bully their way, as they please!

The folks in Michigan are facing the same old Enbridge it seems—with their Enbridge expansion project –not far from the 2010 Kalamazoo river fiasco. We can only watch and wonder how the Michigan situation will evolve.

Our BC Enbridge situation is creating a significant public and native outcry—we have to wait and see—we know most pipelines eventually are built –and millions of miles more will be built—and for that reason and the fact that existing pipe lines don’t improve with age—we need to press our law makers to make the pipe liner more accountable—starting with the Boards of Directors.

Little Oversight for Enbridge Pipeline Route that Skirts Lake Michigan

----see this link for full story---Dec 27,2012

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20121227/indiana-enbridge-pipeline-6B-lake-michigan-rivers-dilbit-oil-spill-wetlands?page=4

Excerpts follow;

In the northwestern corner of Indiana a major pipeline project is planned that will carry vast quantities of heavy Canadian crude oil across four rivers that flow into Lake Michigan, where 10 million people get their drinking water. The pipeline will cross one river just 11 miles from the lake. It crosses the other three rivers less than 20 miles from the lake.

Because the pipeline runs so close to Lake Michigan—and because it is being built by a company with a history of pipeline spills in the region—a growing coalition of environmental groups is demanding that it be given extraordinary oversight and protection. But getting those protections will be almost impossible

A major spill into one of the Indiana rivers would be even more disastrous than the Michigan (Kalamazoo) spill, the environmental groups say, because the pipeline's crossing points are so much closer to Lake Michigan.

Since its 2010 Kalamazoo pipeline spill, Enbridge has taken steps to make its pipelines safer, most of them in response to a Corrective Action Order issued by PHMSA. The company has developed better tools and technology for worst case waterborne spills, increased spending on pipeline integrity management, added new emergency training programs for employees and will spend $50 million between 2012 and 2013 to improve "equipment, training and overall response capabilities," Springer said.