Enbridge Tarsands Proposal Shines Light on Toronto’s Aging Pipelines

"Few Torontonians know there are oil pipelines beneath the city and that Enbridge has applied to make significant changes to one of them."



"It flows under soccer fields, parks and waterways, near doughnut shops, major subway intersections and residential backyards across the GTA: An underground river of oil, one that many Torontonians likely don’t know exists.

The crude travels through pipelines like Line 9, a 76-centimetre pipe operated by Enbridge Inc. that currently transports up to 240,000 barrels of imported light crude oil daily from Montreal to Sarnia, Ont.

A slew of information posts dot its pathway throughout the city, advertising a pipeline that has lain below for almost four decades. And yet it flies beneath the radar of most residents."

Valerie Hauch reports for the Toronto Star April 20, 2013.

Source: Toronto Star, 04/22/2013