Five paragraphs reads: While state and federal officials say they have systems in place to respond to a similar spill on the St. Clair River, the people on the ground here in St. Clair County aren’t as confident. “I hope it never happens,” said Jeff Friedland, director for St. Clair County Emergency Management/Homeland Security. “But I do have concerns about the St. Clair River and pipelines.” With an 830-mile interstate natural gas pipeline threatening to further snarl the maze of natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines beneath the county, pipeline safety and planning for a spill are responsibilities shared by private companies and public entities at the local, state and federal levels. “We’ve had some real-world experience with the Kalamazoo River, and there were some really good lessons learned from that,” said Brad Wurfel, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. “You can’t expect companies or industrial processes to run perfectly. You can expect that you’re prepared when they don’t.”
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 22:11:48 +0000
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