Groups Warn Landowners of - Line 66 - Impact

A Canadian oil company says it has no commitment yet to build a twin pipeline across the state but that isn’t stopping environmental groups from building up opposition to the plan.

The groups want to bring attention to Enbridge’s “Line 66” that could be built parallel to Line 61 that runs from Superior to Pontiac, Ill. – saying it could increase the threat of spills to the area with a higher capacity of tar sands running through the channel.

Carl Whiting, of Wise Safe Energy (WiSE) Alliance, says he doesn’t believe that property owners are aware of the impact the plan could have on their land....

...The Line 61 expansion project will carry around 1.2 million barrels of tar sands crude a day, more than Keystone XL, a proposed pipeline by TransCanada Corporation, that had its application rejected by President Barack Obama last November.

Whiting added that there’s now pressure being put on Democrats to ask that all pipeline projects, including a proposed Line 66, get the same federal government public environmental review scrutiny.

“We want all these pipelines,” Whiting said, “to be looked at through the same lens.”

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