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, i e. {- f# Q, e3 Z7 \Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river
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Wed Mar 11, 4:28 PM
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. d' d/ v) @; k8 {6 u" xBy The Canadian Press9 K# C$ U- l! N4 d' o. K
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FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Suncor Energy Inc. (TSX:SU) and two of its contractors are headed to court next month after being charged with dumping partially-treated sewage from two work camps into a northern Alberta river.
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The contractors charged are the Compass Group of Canada, which ran the camps, and Rodney McCabe, whose now-defunct company operated the two wastewater plants./ }# G9 ^% d I
* u! }/ i8 t" ]The charges laid last year under Alberta's Environmental Protection Act include failing to properly treat wastewater and providing false or misleading information to the environment ministry.. U, E( U% x" _& d- Q9 c
: P. d$ ~3 h7 M6 WEnvironment Minister Rob Renner says the charges were laid after a routine audit found problems with the sewage discharge into the Athabasca River.
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McCabe and Compass are refusing comment, but a Suncor spokesman says the sewage likely had very little impact on the water quality in the river.
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The nearest downstream community is Fort MacKay, but a spokesman for the aboriginal settlement said the 600 residents take their water from another river that's not connected to the Athabasca. |
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