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Canada: Alberta Tests Athabasca River to Gauge Oil Sand Leak's Toxicity

2013-03-27 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Globe and Mail: More than a day after industrial waste water leaked from a Suncor Energy Inc. site into the Athabasca River, the oil-sands giant and the province were still trying to determine which, if any, toxic materials were carried into the major Alberta waterway. On Monday, staff at the Suncor oil-sands base plant north of Fort McMurray discovered a pipe carrying water that had been used in bitumen extraction and upgrading had frozen, cracked and was leaking into an outfall pond near the river for at least...

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