{"id":3073,"date":"2013-10-19T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T14:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outdoorblog.net\/outinmichigan\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2013-10-19T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T14:30:19","slug":"aging-tar-sands-pipelines-beneath-great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorblog.net\/outinmichigan\/2013\/10\/19\/aging-tar-sands-pipelines-beneath-great-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Aging Tar Sands Pipelines Beneath Great Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am reposting this article from\u00a0ecowatch.com\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nwf.org\/author\/wallaceb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beth Wallace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This past July, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) conducted a diving expedition to obtain footage of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwf.org\/News-and-Magazines\/Media-Center\/Reports\/Archive\/2012\/10-18-12-Sunken-Hazard.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">aging oil pipelines<\/a>\u00a0strung across one of the most sensitive locations in the Great Lakes, and possibly the world: the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nwf.org\/2012\/10\/enbridge-threatens-freshwater-drinking-source-for-million-of-people\/\">Straits of Mackinac<\/a>. Footage of these pipelines has never been released to the public until now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/news\/energy-news\/footage-of-tar-sands-pipelines-beneath-great-lakes\/attachment\/line5spill1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Line5Spill1\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Line5Spill1.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This NWF map simulates a 3, 6 and 12 hour spill from the tar sands oil pipeline based on Enbridge spill response plans, average current speeds and \u201cworse case\u201d discharge estimates.<\/p>\n<p>The Straits of Mackinac pipelines, owned by Enbridge Energy, are 60-years-old and considered one of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwf.org\/News-and-Magazines\/National-Wildlife\/Animals\/Archives\/2013\/Great%20Lakes%20Tar%20Sands%20Pipelines.aspx\">greatest threats<\/a>\u00a0to the Great Lakes\u00a0because of their age, location and the hazardous products they transport\u2014including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwf.org\/What-We-Do\/Energy-and-Climate\/Drilling-and-Mining\/Tar-Sands\/Michigan-Oil-Spill.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">tar sands derived oil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly two years, NWF has been pressing pipeline regulators and Enbridge to release information about the integrity of these pipelines, including inspection videos showing how the pipelines cross the Straits of Mackinac.\u00a0These requests have gone\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/20130911\/exclusive-pipeline-safety-chief-says-his-regulatory-process-kind-dying\" target=\"_blank\">largely unanswered<\/a>\u00a0from both Enbridge and the Pipeline Hazards Safety Administration (PHMSA), who regulates pipeline operations. Because Enbridge hastily moved forward with plans to increase pressure on the aging pipelines, and has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nwf.org\/2013\/07\/starting-a-movement-in-the-great-lakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">bypassed critical environmental permitting<\/a>\u00a0for changes in operation, NWF decided we needed to obtain our own:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qCMfDDcyRb0?rel=0\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The footage shows pipelines suspended over the lakebed, some original supports broken away\u2014indicating the presence of corrosion\u2014and some sections of the suspended pipelines covered in large piles of unknown debris. This visual is evidence that our decision makers need to step in and demand a release of information from Enbridge and PHMSA.<\/p>\n<p>Heightening our concern around this pipeline and the company that owns it: despite having cleared our dive work with the U.S. Coast Guard, several Congressional members and Homeland Security, our staff and the dive crew had uncomfortable interactions with Enbridge representatives.\u00a0As soon as our team set out on the water, we were quickly accompanied by an Enbridge crew that monitored our every move. This monitoring did not stop at the surface: Enbridge also placed a Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) into the water to watch our team.<\/p>\n<p>These actions and our video have raised our level of concern for the general operational behavior of this company and their overall safety culture\u2014including the way they treat the concerned\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grangehallpress.com\/Enbridgeblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">public living near their pipelines<\/a>.\u00a0If these aging pipelines rupture, the resulting oil slick would cause irreversible damage to fish and wildlife, drinking water, Lake Michigan beaches, Mackinac Island and our economy.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, the recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/news\/energy-news\/oil-gas-industry-wont-feel-much-pain-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">shutdown of our federal government<\/a>\u00a0has left communities and wildlife with an increased risk of oil spills and failed response because pipeline safety and responding agencies have been scaled back or closed all together.\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/news\/energy-news\/pipeline-spews-20600-barrels-fracked-oil-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent oil spill in North Dakota<\/a>, of approximately 800,000 gallons, is living proof.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on National Wildlife Federation\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nwf.org\/2013\/10\/whats-the-condition-of-the-pipeline-beneath-the-straits-of-mackinac-video\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wildlife Promise<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am reposting this article from\u00a0ecowatch.com\u00a0Beth Wallace. This past July, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) conducted a diving expedition to obtain footage of\u00a0aging oil pipelines\u00a0strung across one of the most sensitive locations in the Great Lakes, and possibly the world: the\u00a0Straits of Mackinac. Footage of these pipelines has never been released to the public until now. 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