The clean up continues along the creeks near an Oil Pipeline pumping station in southern Calhoun County where a huge oil leak has dumped 840-thousand gallons of crude oil into tributaries of the Kalamazoo River. Like the BP oil spill, the company responsible, Enbridge Energy, says it will pay for the cost of the clean-up, but it may not be equipped to prevent environmental damage first in the Marshall area and downstream. Weeks of heavy rains have swollen the creeks and the River and oil is getting past their booms and barriers and slowly making its way downstream to Battle Creek, Kalamazoo and eventually Saugatuck and Lake Michigan. Birds coated with oil are already turning up.
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