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Company: Enbridge Energy
Current Parent Company: Enbridge
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Penalty: $11,000,000
Year: 2022
Date: October 17, 2022
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: Enbridge Energy agreed to pay a total of $11 million in four settlements with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Department of Natural Resources, and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior, resolving allegations the company violated a series of regulations and requirements including discharging construction stormwater into wetlands and inadvertently releasing drilling mud into surface waters at 12 locations on the Line 3 pipeline construction project.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Minnesota
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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