Enbridge, a Canadian company has a pipeline easement that runs from northeast Indiana to southeast Michigan, running through Livingston, Oakland and Macomb counties. This pipeline is the same one that burst in 2010 near Marshall Michigan and leaked almost 1,000,000 gals of tar sands crude oil into Talmadge Creek (which goes to the Kalamazoo River and eventually into Lake Michigan).
Many citizens have been and are being impacted by this new pipeline and communities are trying to address the possible safety issues
Citizens’ blog: http://grangehallpress.com/Enbridgeblog/2012/08/02/non-profit-polar-set-to-launch/#comments
Good legal information: http://www.livingstonbankruptcy.com/id6.html
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