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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river
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By The Canadian Press% `% K7 i+ b2 Y! q' ^- l
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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.. d; N5 T7 F' v$ k Z
) T. ~. C1 o6 I* R: J) s; B9 |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.3 B6 \- K0 }' P! W) }
: b0 d' Y; b% J$ k nEnvironment 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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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., _ p) _- g0 d
7 F4 F5 M( v. ?8 m' A+ a/ pThe 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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