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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river
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By The Canadian Press
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! |' Y, S( z5 A, o3 E# i* z: l+ tFORT 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.0 |2 P% S7 V/ I
7 ^& G5 H9 i* \) ]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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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./ X L# E; S: o, g k. ]7 f
- l- ?$ k) Q/ m3 |' Z oEnvironment 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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5 q0 b1 A% V: p& TMcCabe and Compass are refusing comment, but a Suncor spokesman says the sewage likely had very little impact on the water quality in the river.8 m; X& s0 P- |+ b3 S N8 Q* V
+ z+ G5 {! T; |. a# O% bThe 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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