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MARSHALL, Mich. — Volunteers and government officials scrambled Friday to save wildlife damaged by an oil spill in a southern Michigan river as the Canadian company that owns the ruptured pipeline said the crude was contained.
Enbridge Inc., based in Calgary, Alberta, said its focus was shifting to cleaning up the spilled oil in the Kalamazoo River, which it estimates at 820,000 gallons. The Environmental Protection Agency puts the total at more than 1 million gallons.
Company and federal officials say they don’t believe the oil will reach Lake Michigan, where the Kalamazoo River empties. EPA officials say it could take a couple of months to clean up the spill, and the cause is under investigation. Denver Post wire services
