Un autre déversement de pétrole brut

Photo: Sheri McGee

Un oléoduc appartenant à Enbridge Pipelines fait des dégâts près d'Augusta, au Michigan. C'est un oléoduc de 30 pouces qui transporte du brut, 8 millions de gallons par jour, de Griffith, Indiana, à Sarnia, en Ontario, qui a déversé son contenu dans le Talmadge Creek qui se déverse à son tour dans la Kalamazoo River, affluent du Lac Michigan. La fuite est le résultat d'un bris survenu dimanche soir ou lundi matin.

On estime qu'environ 20,000 gallons de brut ont fuit dans la rivière, et le gouverneur a déclaré un état d'urgence local. Il dénonce la lenteur du propriétaire à réagir à l'urgence.

Çà me rappelle qu'il y a aussi des oléoducs qui prennent de l'âge qui traversent le fleuve Saint-Laurent et la rivière Richelieu tout près d'ici...
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"Kalamazoo County's emergency management office has declared a local state of emergency, according to a 1:30 p.m. release. Enbridge said the 30-inch pipeline transfers about 8 million gallons of crude oil a day from Griffith, Ind., to Sarnia, Ontario. The leak originated from the EnbridThe Kalamazoo River flows west through the city of Kalamazoo, and then north and west through Allegan County. It flows into Lake Michigan at Saugatuck.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday hammered a company responsible for an 819,000-gallon oil spill near Marshall as the crude continued to flow westward along the Kalamazoo River, and government officials and company workers attempted to stop the disaster from spreading.

Following a helicopter flyover of the leak over the Kalamazoo River, Granholm said the oil company's response has been "anemic" after reports surfaced that a Battle Creek man reported the odor of oil to police 13 hours before the company shut off its pipe valve near the border of Marshall and Fredonia townships."

Excerpts from articles here: http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20100728/NEWS01/7280318/Granholm-slams-Enbridge-on-spreading-oil-spill

and here: http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/kalamazoo_and_battle_creek/Oil-spill-spreading-toward-Battle-Creek

And to think we have pipelines crossing the St-Lawrence River and the Richelieu River near here!