The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that over 1 million gallons of oil has poured into the Kalamazoo river since the Enbridge pipeline rupture.
Some officials claim to have seen oil sheen in Morrow Lake, the lake where they supposedly thought the dam would stop the oil from inching closer to Lake Michigan. Unfortunately at this time it is uncertain whether or not any oil has leaked beyond the dam.
Enbridge, an Alberta; Canada based company has released only a few statements saying, “significant progress” has been made in regard to oil clean-up efforts and that more help is on the way.
Despite Enbridge’s positive attitude, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Grandholm seemed less than thrilled and described their efforts as “inadequate”.
On Thursday Enbridge's CEO Patrick Daniel released a statement apologizing for the oil spill.
Volunteers and workers are still siphoning oil from the river with vacuum trucks and absorbent booms. All hopes are aimed at the dam preventing the oil from advancing toward Lake Michigan which is 80 miles downstream.
Wildlife has reaped the effects of the oil spill. The WNEM-TV5 website notes, “ It's already killed fish and coated other wildlife along at least 35 miles of river.”
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Seems like we have oil coming at us from all directions and not in a good way.
I had heard about the spill in Salt Lake City, but not this one. Not a good year for the North American environment.
Nice, there's oil in the water and the government is "apologizing" and sitting on their thumbs hoping a dam stops it from polluting the biggest freshwater sources around. They need to get up and ACT!
With hopes that it doesn't spoil another of our natural rescourses beyond what can be 'repaired'. You'd think the oil and gas companies would take the time and effort to check their pipelines and equipment more closely. It would be so much cheaper to spend a dollar now, rather then thousands to clean up their mistakes!
The ending quote is most disturbing. My god, what have we done?
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