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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river( n0 _: }$ x+ x+ c$ Y0 c
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Wed Mar 11, 4:28 PM8 g4 |6 @! f6 n6 T+ n, z
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By The Canadian Press* a, C; c. {5 E
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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.! j1 T8 C1 ~" G
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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./ n' K3 @" l3 l- k: z
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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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Environment Minister Rob Renner says the charges were laid after a routine audit found problems with the sewage discharge into the Athabasca River.- Q6 H- }& L7 D. b4 v5 D7 i8 _
' x4 r, c) J# OMcCabe 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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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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