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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river
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' ^6 e% @2 K" r% I; @By The Canadian Press" o3 D Q9 C) x8 ~+ q
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, Z C+ r3 r& _$ n0 l- 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.# \$ Q( n5 U; {) I
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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.
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; y% P) U- L3 KThe 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.7 i9 t9 v; i0 U( K
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Environment Minister Rob Renner says the charges were laid after a routine audit found problems with the sewage discharge into the Athabasca River.) g7 @' e U+ j9 u
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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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