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Company doubling workforce on Mich. river spill (AP)

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. – A company operating a pipeline that dumped an estimated 877,000 gallons of oil into a southern Michigan river says it's doubling its work force on the containment and cleanup effort.

Officials with Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge Inc. made the announcement during a Wednesday update on the spill. The company had about 200 employees and contractors working on the spill a day earlier.

The Environmental Protection Agency also is bringing in additional contractors.

Oil leaking from a 30-inch pipeline coated birds and fish as it poured into a creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River, one of the state's major waterways, before it was shut off Monday.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer (SHA-wir) of Michigan has said Enbridge was slow in alerting federal authorities to the spill.

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