Imperial Oil pipeline spills 843,000 litres northwest of Cold Lake, Alta. (www.cbc.ca)

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An Imperial Oil pipeline spilled 843,000 litres of bitumen emulsion northwest of Cold Lake, Alta., last week.

In a statement to CBC News, Imperial Oil spokesperson Lisa Schmidt said teams responded immediately. The release, which occurred April 9, has been stopped and contained, and cleanup and remediation are underway.

“We are sorry this incident occurred," Schmidt wrote.

An Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) spokesperson confirmed the agency sent inspectors to the site of the spill — about 30 kilometres northwest of Cold Lake, a city near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.

Although, Kevin Timoney, ecologist with Treeline Ecological Research, has studied thousands of spills and believes wildlife and waterbodies could be affected.

“There are always impacts and I know that, in the vast majority of cases, those impacts are not adequately reported,” Timoney said.

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[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago

Gas prices are jumping again, and not only because of the idiot down south.

[-] nocklobster@lemmy.world 23 points 9 hours ago

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Equivalent to about 5,302 barrels of oil. Did the conversion because I had no idea. Bad headline.

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 7 points 8 hours ago

Bitumen emulsion. Instant highway?

[-] discomatic@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago

I'm picturing the coyote tossing highway out and painting the mountain to look like a tunnel

[-] BinzyBoi@piefed.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

Can't wait for the provincial NDP to come out in opposition over this.

Oh wait, they're too busy fighting the federal party for new oil and gas developments...

[-] uninvitedguest@piefed.ca 4 points 9 hours ago

I've never before seen Alberta abbreviated to Alta.

[-] BinzyBoi@piefed.ca 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It's an older way of doing so, deprecated abbreviation for post and mail iirc. Some communities take their name from it a little like Sunalta and perhaps Altadore.