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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river
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+ u# n7 e7 J5 Q- mBy The Canadian Press
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. d: T7 u0 _. q1 \5 C6 R' Q5 {0 fFORT 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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( |: b9 k' b# k8 y! b# 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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0 D. V% m' g( hThe 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& w, p& H& J3 N0 k5 t: Q$ b! k
/ W; A& V( o; A/ p" {* @3 [' h& ?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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/ I" S" Y# h8 O9 nMcCabe and Compass are refusing comment, but a Suncor spokesman says the sewage likely had very little impact on the water quality in the river.. W7 i% e W& W: k2 q
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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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