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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river8 `" v H: M' @* B5 k3 H b
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Wed Mar 11, 4:28 PM+ M; L9 Z N+ P8 o
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By The Canadian Press
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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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+ w; W% F# q2 J7 V( @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.' L. G1 g. e' B ?# S
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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.3 k% f" C" e$ m
7 E( f5 k2 _& P+ e0 f) K* C' W1 Y+ eEnvironment Minister Rob Renner says the charges were laid after a routine audit found problems with the sewage discharge into the Athabasca River.; Z8 M7 [2 h& \# n% X
. j4 q6 w' I% Y/ |" u6 ~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.
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$ D; ^5 Z' v' ~" E- OThe 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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