A new federal regulation requires higher safety standards for pipelines carrying oil and other hazardous liquids through sensitive areas.
FILE - An above ground section of Enbridge's Line 5 at the Mackinaw City, Mich., pump station is photographed in October 2016. A new federal regulation requires higher safety standards for pipelines carrying oil and other hazardous liquids through the Great Lakes region, marine coastal waters and beaches, officials said Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021.
The agency estimated that 2,905 additional miles of hazardous liquid pipelines will be covered under the new rule, primarily in states along the Gulf of Mexico. “We know a pipeline spill in the Great Lakes would be catastrophic,” said Sen. Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat who sponsored the provision.ally responsible operation of U.S. energy infrastructure, and pipelines remain one of the safest ways to deliver affordable, reliable energy," said Robin Rorick, a vice president of the American Petroleum Institute, a trade association.
Among them: last month's release from an oil pipeline in Southern California and a 2010 spill of about 840,000 gallons of crude near Marshall, Michigan, which contaminated nearly 40 miles of the Kalamazoo River.
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