This Oil Pipeline is a Ticking Bomb [Video]

This oil pipeline is bad news.

A nice little environmental reality check before your weekend: There’s an oil pipeline in the Great Lakes and it’s 62 years old.

As if that news wasn’t creepy enough, Grist reports this little nugget of sunshine: “The pipeline was originally built to last 50 years and is in questionable shape, but don’t worry — Enbridge [a crude oil transporter] says they have everything under control.”

Yay.

Watch the entire video about the ordeal (made by Motherboard) below.

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