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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river
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" P" N3 j' f: A7 u5 VWed Mar 11, 4:28 PM
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1 n3 s! N5 }3 b, z! q7 hBy The Canadian Press
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; `% |7 l1 k) u2 zFORT 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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; t9 ?( i2 D9 l, K9 D1 I9 r x, oThe 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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3 W2 `. T0 R' W% CThe 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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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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9 I' Q c, H' f( ~: S3 Z- ZMcCabe and Compass are refusing comment, but a Suncor spokesman says the sewage likely had very little impact on the water quality in the river. n6 {+ j" h& m$ G
) B, M% ]3 e; w$ |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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