Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Enbridge Dilbit Spill Still Not Cleaned Up as 2013 Closes, Irritating the EPA

Workers remove debris from capture booms near the Ceresco Dam earlier this year. The area behind the dam was one of three sites where the U.S. EPA ordered Enbridge Inc. to perform additional dredging to remove submerged oil from the Kalamazoo River. Dredging has been completed behind the dam, though Enbridge admits it will fail to meet the EPA's Dec. 31 deadline for finishing work on other parts of the river. (Credit: David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News) Click to enlarge.
Little evidence remains of the chaotic scramble to stop the massive oil spill that fouled Michigan's Kalamazoo River in the summer of 2010, yet the full effects of the calamitous accident will likely remain unknown for years.

 State environmental officials says it could be 2018 before they are ready to issue a final verdict on the damage done to the Kalamazoo after more than a million gallons of heavy crude oil poured into the river from a pipeline owned by Enbridge Inc.

 At the same time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is showing increasing irritation with Enbridge over its delay in meeting deadlines in the ongoing cleanup.

 Enbridge Dilbit Spill Still Not Cleaned Up as 2013 Closes, Irritating the EPA
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