Enbridge Agrees to Spend $172 Million for 2010 Oil Spill
- Clean Water Act penalties of $62 million second only to BP
- Company also will pay $110 million to improve pipeline safety
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Enbridge Inc. will spend $172 million paying fines and boosting safety across its pipeline operations in a deal with the Justice Department resolving Clean Water Act violations connected to its 2010 oil spill near Marshall, Michigan.
The settlement agreement announced Wednesday resolves the biggest lingering legal questions over the failure of Enbridge’s Line 6B, which sent more than 20,000 barrels of oil gushing into a Kalamazoo River tributary when it ruptured six years ago. The incident became one of the largest inland spills in U.S. history and stoked concerns about the safety of pipelines moving heavy Canadian crude across the border.