Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline through Ohio Raises Grave Concern « EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots Environmental Movement

The ruptured Kalamazoo tar sands pipeline. Photo courtesy of National Transportation Safety Board.

More than one million gallons of raw tar sands crude oil leaked into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River in July 2010. Photo courtesy Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.

Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline through Ohio Raises Grave Concern « EcoWatch: Uniting the Voice of the Grassroots Environmental Movement: "The oil spread quickly in the flooded river, coating wildlife, saturating marshlands, backyards, businesses and farmland. The raw tar sands oil disaster was caused by a break in a pipeline owned by Enbridge, which knew of safety problems with the pipeline for years before the disaster."

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