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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river# g% ?3 Y# o5 N. ]/ r% R
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Wed Mar 11, 4:28 PM
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By The Canadian Press, t" O; |# p% r* U$ t7 I: a+ l
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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.. R- T) }# t/ e: K. O
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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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" @$ M; h& ]* Q7 D) w, O, iEnvironment 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.' U& ^9 X d3 F& i7 [: M* T. J
; J9 d7 n- }' V* n8 R; S$ C9 WThe 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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