The pipeline normally carries 190, 000 barrels of oil per day from Griffith, Indiana, to Sarnia, Ontario.

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The crossing from Sarnia, Ontario, to Port Huron, Michigan reported a backup of just over a mile Thursday morning.

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Every Sunday, as he has since I can first remember, he plays the largest church organ in Sarnia, near Lake Huron, where he lives with my mother.

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Steve Forrest, from the Sarnia Car Club, said it was good news but there were still questions over how limited supplies would be and how much the fuel would cost.

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The wait was five hours for trucks and 90 minutes for passenger cars at the Bluewater Bridge, which links Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan, according to Canada Customs spokesman Danny Yen.

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This was the theory behind Canadian artist Peter von Tiesenhausen's decision to bury a sculpture almost four metres underground, beneath a sewer at the main crossroads in the city of Sarnia, Ontario.

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In a statement, Michaud said AVEtec successfully tested a 13-foot-wide power plant prototype in 2009 and that the startup would use the Breakout Labs grant to build a bigger version in collaboration with Lambton College in Sarnia, Ontario.

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