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Local, state and federal authorities have been streaming into this tiny hamlet in Calhoun county since Monday to respond to what may be the largest oil leak ever in the state of Michigan — and possibly in the entire Midwest — in an oil pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy of Canada.

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Officials from the U.S. Coast Guard and BP held a hurriedly called press conference late Wednesday evening to dramatically revise upward previous estimates of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, whose Coast Guard district oversees the cleanup operation, said a newly discovered rupture and calculations by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have caused estimates of the leak to be raised from 1,000 barrels to 5,000 barrels per day. That’s the equivalent of 210,000 U.S. gallons

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BBC photos of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

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