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Feds Warned Company in Mich. Spill About Pipeline

DETROIT (July 31) -- U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, according to a document released Saturday. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety...

Kalamazoo Oil Spill Declared State of Emergency

(July 27) -- The last thing the United States needs at this point is yet another oil spill. But that's just what it got this week, times two. On Monday, a 30-inch oil pipeline sprang a leak in Kalamazoo County, Mich., and it has now released more than 800,000 gallons of oil into Talmadge Creek, a tributary that flows...

Pipeline Leak Pollutes Major Michigan River

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (July 27) -- Crews were working Tuesday to contain and clean up more than 800,000 gallons of oil that poured into a creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan, coating birds and fish. Authorities in Battle Creek and Emmett Township warned residents about the strong odor from the...

China Fights the World's Other Huge Oil Spill [TIMELINE]

(July 21) -- This sound familiar? China is dealing with the worst oil spill in its history, according to Greenpeace, after two pipelines in the coastal city of Dalian exploded Friday, sending crude gushing into the Yellow Sea. Below, Surge Desk outlines the timeline of the world's other great oil spill. Most of the facts...

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Feds Release MI Oil Spill Investigation Documents

MARSHALL, Mich. Federal officials have released photographs and 5,000 pages of documents related to the pipeline rupture in southwestern Michigan that polluted the Kalamazoo River and a tributary creek nearly two years ago.

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Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline: Canada's Government Looks To Silence Enbridge Opposition

Some opponents of the proposed C$5.5 billion ($5.5 billion) Northern Gateway oil pipeline to Canada's Pacific Coast may not get a chance to be heard as scheduled by the regulatory panel looking at the plan because of federal government moves to streamline the country's environmental review process.

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TransCanada reapplies for oil pipeline

WASHINGTON -The Canadian company trying to build the disputed Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. submitted a new application for the project Friday after changing the route to avoid environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska.

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05/21/12 Feds Release MI Oil Spill Investigation Documents Source: The Huffington Post - Business MARSHALL, Mich. Federal officials have released photographs and 5,000 pages of documents related to the pipeline rupture in southwestern Michigan that polluted the Kalamazoo River and a tributary creek nearly two years ago.
05/11/12 Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline: Canada's Government... Source: The Huffington Post Some opponents of the proposed C$5.5 billion ($5.5 billion) Northern Gateway oil pipeline to Canada's Pacific Coast may not get a chance to be heard as scheduled by the regulatory panel looking at the plan because of federal government moves to streamline the country's environmental review process.
05/04/12 TransCanada reapplies for oil pipeline Source: AOL Money & Finance WASHINGTON -The Canadian company trying to build the disputed Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. submitted a new application for the project Friday after changing the route to avoid environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska.