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Signs posted at a gathering at a park on the Kalamazoo River. Fifteen years ago, an oil spill from an Enbridge pipeline took years to clean up. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says there is still a lot of oil in the sediment of the river.

Environmental groups use anniversary of Kalamazoo River oil spill to warn about Enbridge Line 5

Lester Graham

The massive oil spill in the Kalamazoo River 15 years ago polluted the water and shoreline and left oil-coated wildlife. More than a million gallons of oil was recovered along a more than 35 mile stretch of the river.

Environment & Climate Change

Critics use anniversary of 2010 oil spill to protest Mackinac Straits tunnel project

Steve Carmody

Activists are using this week’s 9th anniversary of the Kalamazoo River oil spill to dramatize their opposition to a proposed oil pipeline tunnel beneath…

In 2010, oil spilled into a creek near the Kalamazoo River from Enbridge Line 6b

Environment & Climate Change

Keeping an eye on Michigan's hazardous liquid pipelines

Stateside Staff

It was April of 2010 when Enbridge Line 6b ruptured, spilling more than a million gallons of Canadian heavy crude oil into a creek near Kalamazoo. It was…

Ground zero for the 2010 oil spill was in Marshall, Michigan.

Environment & Climate Change

Enbridge will pay $172 million for Kalamazoo River oil spill

Mark Brush

You probably remember hearing about fines levied against Enbridge for the 2010 Kalamazoo River oil spill before. You're right. You did.The company paid…