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Suncor facing charges after partially-treated sewage dumped into Alberta river
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By The Canadian Press$ x6 [5 C0 s% e3 t$ N: L4 `8 @
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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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! r/ X) u6 R0 \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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9 }6 Z$ l) o+ b6 l( p! _1 R7 qThe 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.# E0 U# u+ M7 u) m$ z
" B+ d; U& J. a* L3 H2 x% WEnvironment 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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$ w5 E3 R" K2 UMcCabe and Compass are refusing comment, but a Suncor spokesman says the sewage likely had very little impact on the water quality in the river.% G6 ^7 c) l% b- j. [) Y- }' n8 ?
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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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