Enbridge’s Line 6 Oil Spill
On December 17th, 2024, I published the first aerial images of Enbridge’s oil spill in southern Wisconsin. These photos have been shared hundreds of times on several social media platforms and news outlets.
Read the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article here.
On November 11th, 2024, an oil spill was reported to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Initially, Enbridge reported a 2 gallon spill at one of their pump stations located just south of US Highway 18, about 5 miles east of Cambridge, Wisconsin.
The next day the amount spilled was revised to 126 gallons, which was revised again to almost 70,000 gallons.
News of the spill reached the public a month later, around December 12th.
Between December 12th and December 15th, I read many articles about this oil spill, almost all of them featured stock photos of Enbridge’s storage tanks in Superior, Wisconsin. There were no photos of the site that I could find.
After learning the location of the oil spill from their Accident Report made with the U.S Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, I drove four hours to the site to get drone photos.
On December 17th, I published these photos from my personal account, not knowing what impact they would have.
Since posting, these photos have been shared hundreds of times on multiple social media platforms and by several media outlets, including the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, whose article about the spill you can read here.
