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Company: Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership
Current Parent Company: Enbridge
Penalty: $177,400,000
Year: 2016
Date: July 20, 2016
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Secondary Offense: oil spill
Violation Description: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership and several related Enbridge companies to resolve claims stemming from its 2010 oil spills in Marshall, Michigan, and Romeoville, Illinois. Enbridge agreed to spend at least $110 million on a series of measures to prevent spills and improve operations across nearly 2,000 miles of its pipeline system in the Great Lakes region. Enbridge also agreed to pay civil penalties totaling $62 million for Clean Water Act violations. In addition, the settlement resolved Enbridge's liability under the Oil Pollution Act, based on the company's commitment to pay over $5.4 million in unreimbursed costs incurred by the government in connection with cleanup of the Marshall spill, as well as all future removal costs incurred by the government in connection with that spill.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: Canada
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: pipelines
Specific Industry of Current Parent: pipelines
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