EDMONTON, Alberta. – The Enbridge pipeline company claimed to be “fully cooperating” with Minnesota regulators about groundwater contamination at Clearbrook from its controversial Line 3 project. A company spokesperson, Julie Kellner, didn’t elaborate. Enbridge has a major Line 3 terminal at Clearbrook, north of Bemidji. Line 3, which runs from Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin. The company has been under state Natural Resources Department scrutiny for numerous construction accidents, ruptures and leaks in the Mississippi River headwaters and the Red River drainage.
Enbridge profile
Enbridge, based in Edmonton, Alberta, employs 6,000 workers and ranks 18th of Canada’s largest companies in revenue. It operates the world’s longest crude oil pipelines, through which it transports 12% of U.S. oil imports. Between 1999 and 2008 Enbridge recorded 610 spills that released 132,000 barrels of hydrocarbons into farms, wetlands and waterways on the continent. The spills equal about half of the oil that the tanker Exxon Valdez lost in Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1988.
Enbridge Tower. The company is headquartered in its namesake 25-story skyscraper in Edmonton.