http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100727/ap_on_bi_ge/us_michigan_river_oil_spill
One of Michigan’s biggest and best rivers is suffering from an oil spill. A Canadian oil company did not do enough upkeep on the pipes and a 30 incher broke spilling nearly 1 million gallons of crude into the river. We have lots of oil covered birds and mammals. Our fish are dying rapidly and the river is oil soaked. It is a disaster.
I heard about it last week. I read it in my local newspaper. I have no idea if it’s national news or if we just heard about it in (Eastern) Wisconsin since he share Lake Michigan with you.
it was on national broadcast tv news in the USA
I have heard of it but am not that aware of it. I doubt most of America or the world is either. Your timing is terrible frankly. Most people don’t have the attention span to focus on a minor petroleum disaster when the biggest one in U.S. history is happening at the same time. Even the coverage of the devastation from the Haitian earthquake got bunked in favor of the Gulf Oil volcano. Bad news coming out of Michigan is more of the “dog bites man” headline than “man bites dog” type that makes headlines.
You do have my sympathies but I hope you understand why most people aren’t paying much attention to it.
I saw it on CNN a few times over a period of several days. But let’s face it, nobody’s interested any more in oil spills that aren’t of biblical proportions.
You are even more unlucky because your oil spill will probably do far more harm long-term than the BP spill - which is being diluted by a large sea.
You need to dunk some sweet little creatures in the oil, and then get them on TV. Where’s Bambi when you need him?
Or else start another anti-foreigner campaign. It worked with BP.
While the OP actually does ask a question, I think this one is better suited to MPSIMS–so far.
samclem Moderator, GQ
Why do you hate Michigan?
I heard national coverage of the spill on NPR. Google News returns 549 items in the first section if you search for michigan oil spill and 4,032 if you search for gulf oil spill. The Michigan stories seem to be predominantly from regional outlets or business-focused outlets (Bloomberg, for example).
So, yeah, there’s awareness, just not to the degree that one would hope.
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Why do you hate Michigan?
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I live in Ohio. It was in the “welcome packet” I got when I moved here. 
I live in Ohio. It was in the “welcome packet” I got when I moved here.
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Move away . They will make you eat buckeyes.
I’ve been following the story on NPR since it broke. There seems to have been a lot of early hysterical rhetoric and overreaction from politicians, and some complaints that things weren’t reported quickly enough, overlooking the fact that they were required to have certain data on the amount spilled before they reported it to a certain agency, and that took a few hours to determine.
No hysteria, it is a mess. It will get into the water table. It has wiped out sport fishing.
When it is your home, the company can never move fast enough. It does not have a huge gulf to dissipate it.
I’m ashamed to say- because I regularly watch the news… what Michigan oil spill?
At least the oil company doesn’t have to worry about paying those pesky “lost wages”- there are, apparently, no wages being paid in Michigan at the moment.
The sportfishing may come back sooner than predicted. We had a major spill near West Elizabeth PA and between the company and nature things got cleaned a lot faster than anticipated.
Ugh, don’t remind me of this. I lived in Kalamazoo for a while and played in the river when I was younger. I really hope it doesn’t reach Lake Michigan, it’s bad enough as it is. 
Chicagoan here, and aware of it. It’s a terrible event.
Don’t feel bad. I live in Michigan and I hadn’t heard much about it. I’m not stupid…I swear.
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I probably wouldn’t have heard of it but the ASCE news blurb I get featured it. It’s a terrible thing.