Timely Alert, Links About Tar Sands Pipelines Threats To Wisconsin Waters

Eric Hansen has a fine op-ed in the Journal Sentinel:

Connect the dots on Enbridge's efforts to quietly network thousands of miles of pipelines — a system that would lock in both Wisconsin and our region as a major transportation corridor to ship tar sands crude oil overseas to the world market for decades to come — and a reasonable citizen would be outraged. 

Profit and jobs would go to Canada. Crude oil would go overseas. Toxic risk would stay here, sprinkled throughout our region in the crude oil spills, air quality and public health impacts that would certainly come. 

Enbridge's piecemeal method, linking and converting already existing pipelines with new connectors, has largely escaped the intense public scrutiny and uproar the Keystone XL pipeline proposal has met — so far.

You can read more about Enbridge's sorry record in Wisconsin, and elsewhere, compiled here last July:

I put up a post yesterday about yet another pipeline break in Wisconsin at an Enbridge operation, and noted that it was hard to keep up with the company's messy history 

Well, thanks to Reuters and The New York Times today, you can read the scorecard for yourself:

Eric Hansen sends these additional links:

Detroit Free Press Editorial: With Great Lakes oil proposals, the risk is not worth the reward 

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013305090039 

Bloomberg News: 
Enbridge Expansion Could Turn Into Keystone-Like Fight 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-02/enbridge-expansion-could-turn-into-keys
tone-like-fight.html 

New England towns and ports targeted for a Tar Sands pipeline project organizing 
"Tar Sands Free" referendums successfully 
http://www.tarsandsfreene.org 

National Wildlife Federation: Enbridge Great Lakes pipelines map, article 
"Growth of Tar Sands Across the Midwest" 

http://www.nwf.org/what-we-do/energy-and-climate/drilling-and-mining/tar-sands/m
ichigan-oil-spill.aspx 

Wisconsin Sierra Club page on Enbridge/Tar Sands in Wisconsin, including map 

http://www.wisconsin.sierraclub.org/Issues/Enbridge67.asp 

Kalamazoo Enbridge spill: InsideClimateNews: The Dilbit Disaster 

http://insideclimatenews.org/topic/dilbit-disaster-series-2012 

InsideClimateNews  Another Major Tar Sands Pipeline Seeking U.S. Permit      
Map, comprensive article 

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130603/map-another-major-tar-sands-pipeline-seeking-us-permit