Enbridge Canada-U.S. pipeline shuts after fatal crash

CBC News, Mar 4, 2012

Firefighters remove vehicles involved in fatal crash that caused an explosion & oil spill at Enbridge facility near Chicago, March 2012

Enbridge Inc. says it has shut down an oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. after a vehicle accident in Illinois killed two people early Saturday morning.
The collision near New Lenox caused a fire just after 2 a.m. CT in the pumping station and killed two men, according to local reports.
Enbridge, in a statement Sunday, called the incident a “tragic vehicle collision unrelated to our operations.”
Three others were reportedly injured in the crash.
It’s unclear at this point how much oil has spilled, or when the pipeline will re-open.
It is the second time in less than three weeks that the Calgary company has had to shut down part of its system in the U.S. Midwest because of a leak.
The company has been under scrutiny in recent months as it’s proposing to build the Northern Gateway oil pipeline, which would ship oilsands crude to a proposed tanker terminal in British Columbia.
New Lenox is about 50 kilometres southwest of Chicago.
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