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Activists sabotage Enbridge pipeline near Cambridge, Ont.

Enbridge Inc. says flow on a pipeline through southwestern Ontario was shut down for several hours on Monday by protester activity near Cambridge, Ont.
Activists sabotaged an Enbridge pipeline near Cambridge on Sunday to protest the shipment of oilsands crude.

Enbridge Inc. says flow on a pipeline throughsouthwestern Ontario was shut down for several hours by protesteractivity near Cambridge, Ont.

Spokesman Graham White says the protesters partially restrictedflow on EnbridgeLine 7 on Sunday night by tampering witha manual valve.

White says the pipe was shut down for approximately three hourson Monday morning as a safety precaution and so that maintenanceworkers could inspect the valve station.

He says Enbridge has safely restarted the line which carriesvarious products from Sarnia to Westover and there was no impacton client deliveries.

A Monday post by "nopipelines" on a subthread of Reddit, called r/Anarchist News,claimed responsibility for the sabotage, saying it was toprotest the flow of oilsands products through pipelines in Ontario.

Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline was offline for about 90 minutes onDec. 19 after three activists concerned about the line'senvironmental impacts locked themselves to a valve site on theoutskirts of Sarnia.