25 Facts About Enbridge

Enbridge Inc is a multinational pipeline company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Enbridge has built several renewable energy projects in North America and Europe in recent years, and has proposed a net zero greenhouse gas emission target for 2050.

Enbridge is 144th on the 2022 Forbes Global 2000 Ranking and 418th on the 2022 Fortune Global 500 List.

Enbridge has been responsible for several oil spills, including a spill on line 3, which was the largest inland oil spill in the US.

Opposition to Enbridge projects has resulted in several popular uprisings, most notably the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, and the Stop line 3 protests.

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The Enbridge name is a portmanteau from "energy" and "bridge".

Enbridge made their first investment into renewable energy in 2002 with the purchase of a wind farm, and since then has been consistently making efforts to become a leader in renewable energy in Canada.

In 2009, Enbridge bought the Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant and expanded it up to 80 MW, which was the world's largest photovoltaic power station at that time.

Enbridge released its first annual sustainability report in 2001, and in November 2020, Enbridge expanded its environmental, social and governance goals and targets.

In 2021, Enbridge was recognized as one of Canada's top 100 employers for the 18th time, and as one of Canada's best diversity employers for the seventh time.

On September 6,2016, Enbridge agreed to buy Spectra Energy in an all-stock deal valued at about $28 billion.

Enbridge has several new capacities and expansion projects, including the expansion of the Alberta Clipper, replacing of Line 6B, reversal of Line 9 and others.

Enbridge builds, owns and operates a network of natural gas transmission pipelines across North America, connecting the continent's prolific natural gas supply to major markets in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and further abroad.

Enbridge made its first investment into renewable energy in 2002 with the purchase of a wind farm.

Enbridge has a growing interest in European offshore wind energy, and its renewable assets are part of the company's plan to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

In February, 2020, Enbridge sold its shares of Montana-Alberta Tie-Line to Berkshire Hathaway Energy.

Enbridge's pipeline was responsible for the largest inland oil spill in the United States in 1991, when 1.

On July 4,2002, an Enbridge pipeline ruptured in a marsh near the town of Cohasset, Minnesota, in Itasca County, spilling 6,000 barrels of crude oil.

In January 2009, an Enbridge pipeline leaked about 4,000 barrels of oil southeast of Fort McMurray at the company's Cheecham Terminal tank farm.

PHMSA raised concerns in a Corrective Action Order about numerous anomalies that had been detected on this pipeline by internal line inspection tools, yet Enbridge had failed to check a number of those anomalies in the field.

The NTSB found Enbridge knew of a defect in the pipeline five years before it burst.

September 16,2013, "Inside Climate News" report by journalist David Hasemeyer describes how many Michigan landowners are concerned about the safety of new Enbridge pipeline being laid within a few feet of their homes, and the lack of regulations for how close a pipeline can be constructed to an existing home.

In September 2016, a group of Native Americans protested the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which Enbridge had announced plans to acquire a portion of in a $2 billion deal.

In November 2020, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer revoked a 1953 easement for an Enbridge pipeline connecting two parts of the Great Lakes through the Straits of Mackinac.

In June 2021, Enbridge resumed construction on the Line 3 replacement project in Northern Minnesota after taking a brief planned break.

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