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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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5 b7 S! P4 m7 _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., T! j/ {# z! b) A* r0 X
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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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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.: h) ~/ d/ C; ~! i: Q! ~- c+ w" ?; `
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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. T) W" ]) m( n0 Z8 U, ?* d$ @, R
, e v N: F* e% {; _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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& f# i6 z4 L7 d5 D* c; d6 w; T; `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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