{"id":9420,"date":"2018-05-14T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=f4a1dd1287149427f4cb5c28dab7771f"},"modified":"2018-05-14T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:14:30","slug":"enbridge-damaged-oil-pipeline-was-dented-less-than-1-inch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/enbridge-damaged-oil-pipeline-was-dented-less-than-1-inch\/","title":{"rendered":"Enbridge: Damaged oil pipeline was dented less than 1 inch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich. &#8212; The company that operates twin oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac says one of the lines suspected of being struck by a tugboat anchor was dented more than three-fourths of an inch.<\/p>\n<p>Enbridge Inc. official Peter Holran told the Michigan Pipeline Advisory Board in Lansing Monday about the April 1 damage to the pipelines running between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.<\/p>\n<p>Company spokesman Ryan Duffy says each pipeline is about 20 inches in diameter with walls nearly an inch thick &#8212; but the thickness of the walls did not decrease.<\/p>\n<p>Holran says the other pipe suffered two dents of just under three-quarters of an inch and less than a half-inch.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected anchor strike also caused about 600 gallons (2,270 litres) of mineral oil insulation fluid to leak from two electric cables.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Correction: A previous version of the story stated the thickness of the pipelines&#8217; walls decreased from the dents, with the first dent being two-hundredths of an inch from rupturing. The dents did not decrease the wall thickness; they only pushed the walls in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANSING, Mich. &mdash; The company that operates twin oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac says one of the lines suspected of being struck by a tugboat anchor was dented more than three-fourths of an inch. Enbridge Inc. official Peter Holran told the Michigan Pipeline Advisory Board in Lansing Monday about the April 1 damage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9421,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions\/9421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}