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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river* O% D) g" u6 i. ?" \# v8 b
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Wed Mar 11, 4:28 PM
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/ N, ?, h2 P4 @+ M9 i2 m& VBy The Canadian Press
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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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4 m8 ]& o g) }4 QThe contractors charged are the Compass Group of Canada, which ran the camps, and Rodney McCabe, whose now-defunct company operated the two wastewater plants.
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1 E$ n) J ~# [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.
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: U* w8 c( _' |' m7 j$ I5 kEnvironment Minister Rob Renner says the charges were laid after a routine audit found problems with the sewage discharge into the Athabasca River.- v* p5 r# {* b/ `$ |% q$ J3 t
& e: [: P# d) t3 f$ ^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.% N+ h; L2 E/ _. t& b9 {; G; E( x
, i+ \' n$ a! ]/ }' [; eThe 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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