In July of 2010, an oil pipeline ruptured in Michigan spilling 1.1 million gallons of heavy crude into the Kalamazoo River.
Over two years and hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent cleaning up the river.
This was the nation's
costliest oil pipeline accident.
Consider this: Enbridge has a pipeline that rests at the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac. What if the rupture had taken place there instead of inland and contained in a river? Would the shores of Mackinac Island still be coated in thick oil? How much of that spill would now be working its way down past Port Huron, Detroit, and into Lake Erie?
Do you think it can't happen? Enbridge pipelines have had a dozen leaks in the state of Michigan alone since 2003.
I walked along the river earlier this month:
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