Enbridge Simulates Oil Spill

June 7, 2012

A lot of people still remember the images from the BP deep water horizon oil spill in the gulf of mexico.
 
Wednesday, near Towner, Enbridge Energy simulated a breech in their system. The goal was to prevent any kind of environmental damage from happening to the Souris River.
 
The Mouse River served as a staging area for a disaster drill. An emergency response team responded on both land and in the water. Traffic control sites, command and control stations, decontamination areas and boats deploying booms and even dog food were all part of today`s exercise.
 
Katie Haarsager says, "We drop some dog food upstream from the river and we actually watch that travel down."
 
Katie Haarsager says the dog cubes are used to simulate oil on the water and a series of booms are deployed by boats, to capture the material floating down the river.

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