Did Enbridge know about leak on Sunday?

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - People in the Marshall area started smelling something in the air Sunday night, although Enbridge officials have said they didn't know there was a leak until Monday morning.

A citizen complaint sent the Marshall Township Fire Department out to try and discover what was causing the odor.

When officials arrived near the location of the leak, they found a pick-up truck with an Enbridge employee parked there, said Fire Chief Steve Riggs. The firefighters talked with him about the petroleum odor in the air and the man told them he thought it was coming from a Clark oil facility nearby, Riggs said.

Unable to find anything, the firefighters went home.

What was that Enbridge worker doing near the spill site around 11 p.m. Sunday? It raises the question of whether the company knew something about the spill the night before it said it did.

It raises the question, but doesn't answer it.

24 Hour News 8 tried Wednesday to get an answer from Enbridge through e-mail and phone calls, but got no response.

A scheduled 7 p.m. news conference was canceled due to a "scheduling conflict."