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Written by Detroit Free Press
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Monday, 02 August 2010 10:34 |
A week after a pipeline ruptured and sent up to 1 million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, signs of the spill remain achingly visible.
Banks and shrubs are blackened in a thick gook. Rainbow ribbons cover the river's surface. And the acrid smell of oil, health officials said Sunday, still causes respiratory problems, headaches and nausea for the residents who live near the spill.
Four more people have been treated in emergency rooms, raising the total to 26, said Jim Rutherford, Calhoun County health officer.
But environmental officials and the owners of the pipe, Enbridge Energy Partners, struck a positive tone about the cleanup and its future, saying for the first time Sunday that a little more than half of the oil has been removed.
"We are seeing significant progress, but there is a lot of work ahead," said Mark Durno, the Environmental Protection Agency's deputy incident commander for the site.
More than 60,000 feet of booms, which repel water and absorb oil, snake across the river. The booms are expected to be the company's primary weapon against the leak for several weeks or even months, environmental and company officials said Sunday.
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Written by Kalamazoo Gazette
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 07:13 |
Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday took both the company responsible for the massive oil spill spreading on the Kalamazoo River — as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — to task for what she called their “wholly inadequate” response to the spill so far.
“I’m very angered,” Granholm said in a teleconference with reporters. “We need for the responsible party (Enbridge Inc.) and the EPA to step up. The situation is very serious.”
But U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, said late Wednesday that the cleanup effort appeared to be going well.
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Written by New York Times
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 07:10 |
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm expressed growing worry on Wednesday that an oil spill, believed to be among the largest ever in the Midwest, might reach Lake Michigan if efforts to contain the oil were not strengthened.
Dave Jenkins helped clean a muskrat and other animals.
“It would be a tragedy of historic proportions if this reached Lake Michigan,” Ms. Granholm said.
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Written by Associated Press
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 16:11 |
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A company operating a pipeline that dumped more than 800,000 gallons
of oil into a southern Michigan river said Wednesday that it is doubling
its workforce on the containment and cleanup effort. Officials
with Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge Inc. made the announcement during
an update on the spill, which coated birds and fish as it poured into a
creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River, one of the state's major
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Written by Grand Rapids Press
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Sunday, 23 May 2010 17:03 |
A 55-year-old retired Marine Corps sergeant died when the boat he was on sank Saturday morning near the mouth of the Manistee River Channel, according to police.
Manistee resident Michael E. Bachus was one of seven people were on board the Manistee charter boat Kid-A-Gin sometime after 4 a.m. on Saturday in the midst of thick fog when the boat crashed and sank.
Manistee City Police received a 911 call from a passenger on another charter boat saying the vessel hit the south pier.
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