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! i* y4 E: A. ^5 }Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river( I% F2 u1 x# b: N$ U
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Wed Mar 11, 4:28 PM; D- S5 ^6 @3 d8 Y( G
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By The Canadian Press
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) P- q' E" Y+ t$ p: pFORT 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.7 t! S) ^2 w( q
/ [/ W* F$ N/ g6 FThe 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.
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- c# c% b! o- u4 c2 i2 jEnvironment Minister Rob Renner says the charges were laid after a routine audit found problems with the sewage discharge into the Athabasca River./ E l A/ Z% c
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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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! G( ~+ u) I9 f2 LThe 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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