michigan oil spill

The underground oil pipeline connecting the United States, Canada, spread to the Kalamazoo River about 20 miles south-central Michigan, it is necessary to pipe the Canadian owner and U.S. officials on Wednesday that the doubling of resources, and settlement that includes more than 800,000 liters of crude oil leaked.The spill, estimated volume of 19,500 barrels of oil assumed to be the most in the history of the Midwest, but in contrast to the BP PLC oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline was relatively soon after the owners is capped at closure of the line immediately after its discovery. The crack pipe has forced the evacuation of several dozen residents living near the Kalamazoo River, the river forced the closure of the public and raised questions that the owner of the pipeline leak reported at the same time.

The company now plans a pipeline excavation near the breakpoint in the Marshall, Michigan, seeks to cause the fracture to determine the lot to improve and restore the flow of oil in the coming days, officials said Enbridge. The previously scheduled quarterly, Enbridge reported net profits of 138 million Canadian dollars, down 65% from a year earlier market losses in the current market exchange rates against the quarter a year earlier to obtain.The state and federal officials said they try to stop penetration of the oil along the river before it reaches the nearby lake, and is concerned about the impending storm is expected to swell the river level.Officials said it could take weeks before the official cause of the pipe to break it. Feedback on the first part of the research is expected in the coming days to tell the origin of evidence of leakage, company officials said.The company has as much as 45,000 feet worth of boom on-hand.