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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river
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( `# }1 _- w) d" pWed Mar 11, 4:28 PM3 s/ R5 A( J; C: Z ]
* j2 W0 v2 |# i( ABy 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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0 t5 Q P5 u3 |/ K/ rThe 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.
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1 A% S% L5 p$ ^ XEnvironment Minister Rob Renner says the charges were laid after a routine audit found problems with the sewage discharge into the Athabasca River.; N) v- k5 g7 w* t- ^
' h* I9 {0 I3 L, c$ 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.
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( Z& q; c z2 _$ ^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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