Energy

BATTLE CREEK — Officials from the Environmental Protection Agency say they cannot confirm “absolutely” that oil has stopped flowing out of a stretch of pipe which burst Sunday night or Monday morning.
“There is no way they can absolutely be confirmed there is no more oil coming from the break until all the oil around the [...]

MARSHALL TWP — Two county elected officials say an employee of Enbridge Energy was on site on Sunday night, July 25, after the first reports of a million gallon oil spill came into Calhoun county’s 9-1-1 system.
Calhoun County Board of Commissioners Chairman Mike Rae and Marshall Township Clerk Cynthia Sink confirm that Marshall Township [...]

More than a year ago an assessment of Enbridge’s 6B Michigan pipeline revealed corrosion on the line but as recently as this month the company was still negotiating with regulators for more time to fix the problem.
These facts were revealed this week in a Corrective Action Order issued by the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Pipeline [...]

Michigan officials have been quick to file lawsuits to stop invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan so they should be ready to take action to get to the bottom of this week’s Enbridge oil spill, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley told reporters yesterday.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Daley said the million gallon oil spill that has [...]

EPA officials told the Michigan Messenger this morning that no chemical dispersants will be used on the oil spill in Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan.
The use of dispersants in response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has caused a great deal of controversy, as critics say their [...]

Cynthia Quarterman, director of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, worked as legal counsel for Enbridge Energy, the owner of the burst pipeline.

Five days after a pipeline rupture in Marshall spilled around a million gallons of oil into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River, the company responsible has announced that the oil is around 12 percent contained.
Enbridge reported:

BATTLE CREEK — As the cleanup of more than 1 million gallons of oil into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River continues, there are a lot of words swirling around which are not in the everyday vocabulary. Michigan Messenger presents this visual glossary to help you understand the terminology.

MARSHALL — The Calhoun County Health Department has issued a recommendation that people around the area of the Kalamazoo River oil spill evacuate the area. County health officials say they have detected “higher than acceptable levels of benzene” in air quality studies.
The area affected by the recommendation are directly north and northwest of the [...]

COMSTOCK/GALESBURG, MICH.– Faced with disputed claims from the EPA, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and aides to Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Messenger has been visiting sites along the Kalamazoo River between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, particularly around Morrow Lake, to determine exactly how far to the west the oil has reached to this point.
Morrow Lake is a [...]