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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on July 28, 2010, 03:12:56 PM
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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 waterways.
"We've made significant progress," company CEO Patrick D. Daniel said. "But we still have a long way to go in terms of cleanup."
The company had about 200 employees and contractors working on the spill on Tuesday. The Environmental Protection Agency also is bringing in additional contractors, and there was no update on a possible cause, cost or length of cleanup.
"The longer oil is out there the more continued volatilization occurs and the more we become concerned about prolonged potential exposures," said Ralph Dollhopf of the EPA. He said EPA scientists are taking air and water samples.
NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128827490&sc=tw)
Huh? When and how did this happen? It's the first I have heard about it.
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Fox News had a bird on it, that was covered in oil, from up there. I think it was last night that I saw it. I don't remember them reporting that 800,000 gallons had spilled though.
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I saw it on my local Fox channel this am. I believe I heard that the oil company responsible for this was assuming all responsibility for the cleanup. BP may have done them a favor, PR wise at any rate.
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I saw it on my local Fox channel this am. I believe I heard that the oil company responsible for this was assuming all responsibility for the cleanup. BP may have done them a favor, PR wise at any rate.
A very odd coincidence that all this comes out of the blue.
As it is said when a once in a life time thing happens, that is fact--deal with it. The second time it happens then that may be a coincidence, but the 3-4-5 time, then one should wonder what is going on.
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A very odd coincidence that all this comes out of the blue.
As it is said when a once in a life time thing happens, that is fact--deal with it. The second time it happens then that may be a coincidence, but the 3-4-5 time, then one should wonder what is going on.
Yup.
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This is not a coincidence.
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This is not a coincidence.
Nope.
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A very odd coincidence that all this comes out of the blue.
As it is said when a once in a life time thing happens, that is fact--deal with it. The second time it happens then that may be a coincidence, but the 3-4-5 time, then one should wonder what is going on.
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