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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river
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$ `9 t3 F' f/ O, O8 AWed Mar 11, 4:28 PM
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- |0 |( j. C6 E! yBy 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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: c$ D* Y; b0 |3 LThe 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 Q; S. N1 E9 n' y. j9 iThe 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.- _7 `$ Z; [5 u8 M ~, Z+ k, \* J
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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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! N5 a1 `6 R. E1 H" J) u' F- cThe 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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