2nd largest pipeline spill in Alberta history leads to charges

[alp227]

Source: CBC

The company that owns a pipeline that leaked 28,000 barrels of crude oil near the a First Nations community in northwest Alberta — the largest spill in the province in 35 years — is now facing environmental charges.

Plains Midstream Canada ULC is facing three counts under the province's Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act:

The April 2011 spill of almost 4.5 million litres of oil contaminated eight acres of beaver ponds and muskeg in a densely forested area.

Lubicon Cree residents of Little Buffalo, 30 kilometres from the spill site northeast of Peace River, claimed fumes from the leaking crude made them sick with nausea, burning eyes and headaches.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2013/04/26/edmonton-plains-midstream-oil-spill-charges.html

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If Keystone XL is approved, expect this to happen regularly in the US.

[benld74]

1. I'm sure they'll clean it up in no time at all, ala The Gulf, ala Arkansas, al KAZZAM!