Obama fines tar sands pipeline $177 million for 2010 spill

Published July 20, 2016 8:28pm ET



The Obama administration reached a $177 million settlement over a pipeline spill in 2010 that dumped almost 1 million gallons of crude oil from Canada’s tar sands into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River.

Wednesday’s agreement fines Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge $62 million for the spill, while the company will pay $5 million to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency and others for cleaning up the spill. The remaining $110 million would go to create a program to address future spills.

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