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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river$ P4 K: \- Y4 O7 s# `
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Wed Mar 11, 4:28 PM
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By The Canadian Press
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8 v4 g1 a, z3 D: U/ kFORT 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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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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7 w5 T4 _6 n7 _/ W% UThe 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." D8 P- G, X, c; ]2 o2 ^* u
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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.
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, h! [/ O) U/ N2 s8 P2 CMcCabe 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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