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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river( n9 E/ O6 T# C: T1 u2 K7 W
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By The Canadian Press
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0 Y1 A8 i# P @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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. d9 \8 H/ X; n. ]) J7 Z4 v; tThe 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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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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) p9 l" h1 |1 M- U' w# R, K6 F" DEnvironment Minister Rob Renner says the charges were laid after a routine audit found problems with the sewage discharge into the Athabasca River.- |; L" J) z; o
+ i- p% M& g3 ~; U* MMcCabe 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# b. q3 I3 ^1 `- L2 d* E
+ J' {$ m! y- v5 ^( T. n2 e3 YThe 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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