Official Price of the Enbridge Kalamazoo Spill, a Whopping $1,039,000,000

The spill, which went unaddressed for over 17 hours, was exacerbated by Enbridge's failed response according to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).  At a hearing last year the NTSB's chair Deborah Hersman likened the company to a band of Keystone Kops for their bungled response, which included twice pumping additional crude into the line - accounting for 81 percent of the total release - before initiating emergency shut down.  The disaster revealed numerous internal problems within Enbridge that were further described by the NTSB as "pervasive organizational failures."

Official Price of the Enbridge Kalamazoo Spill, a Whopping $1,039,000,000