Oil Company Was Alerted of Kalamazoo River Spill Before Locals Found Leak - Wall Street Journal

The energy company responsible for the oil-pipeline leak that dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Michigan river last week received a low-pressure alarm on the line a day before local authorities discovered the massive leak.

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Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board announced its preliminary findings on Monday from its investigation of the oil spill into the Kalamazoo River near Battle Creek, Mich. Investigators stressed that their findings have not determined a cause of the leak and their probe could take as long as 18 months. According to Matthew Nicholson, the NTSB investigator in charge of the examination of the spill, Enbridge Inc., the Canadian oil transport company that owns the line, began to shut down the 30-inch-diameter pipe section at 5:56 p.m. on July 25 as part of a previously scheduled shutdown.

Oil Company Was Alerted of Kalamazoo River Spill Before Locals Found Leak - Wall Street Journal