An oil pipeline company insists it won’t buy spill cleanup insurance for a Dane County pump station, but it owns a pipeline in Washington state that has purchased hundreds of millions of dollars of such insurance required by local governments.
The chairman of the county zoning committee said the precedent in Washington state gives him only a little more hope that Enbridge Energy will relent and agree to insure against a spill here.
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