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Kalamazoo Activist Could Face Federal Charges for Enbridge Pipeline Protest
2013-12-13 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Observer: After Chris Wahmhoff broke up with his first girlfriend, he went down to the Kalamazoo River to think. When his grandfather died, he went looking for comfort in the same place. He has spent the better part of his life living within a few hundred feet of the river, but when he went down to the water last June, it was for a different reason. On June 24--his 35th birthday--Wahmhoff climbed into a section of Enbridges Line 6B pipeline. When he got out 10 hours later, he was arrested and charged with...
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Michigan Fight over Kalamazoo River's Dam Pits Enbridge, DNR Against Community
2013-10-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MLive: The Michigan Department of Natural Resources would like the Kalamazoo River to return to a free-flowing state. Enbridge, the Canadian pipeline company that leaked a million gallons of crude oil into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River in July 2010, would like to complete the conditions of its mandatory river clean-up. Smack dab in the way of those goals is a 174-year-old dam across the Kalamazoo River. The Ceresco Dam, originally built to power flour and saw mills in the early settlement about...
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Enbridge's Kalamazoo cleanup dredges up 3-year-old oil spill
2013-09-06 18:31:09| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Three years after an Enbridge pipeline ruptured and spilled 3.3 million litres of oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River, the company is still cleaning up and learning lessons about the way diluted bitumen behaves in fresh water.
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Kalamazoo pipeline protester could get two years in jail
2013-08-30 02:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: One oil spill in his community was more than enough for Kalamazoo resident Christopher Wahmhoff. To protest Enbridges replacement of the pipeline that burst along a Michigan riverbank in 2010, Wahmhoff spent 10 hours of his 35th birthday inside the new pipe, slowing construction for a single day in June. Now Wahmhoff, a member of the Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands, has been charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor, charges that could see him put behind bars for more than two years. It...
Kalamazoo New Car Show displays latest models, offers 'no pressure' to customers
2013-08-24 01:37:22| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
As soon as Barb Davis, a proud owner of a 2006 Ford Mustang named "Sally," sat in a 2013 Chevrolet Camaro on display Friday at the Kalamazoo New Car Show at Arcadia Creek Festival Place , her husband Charles jokingly commented about her disloyalty.