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submitted 15 hours ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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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[-] nocklobster@lemmy.world 32 points 15 hours ago
[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago

South Park fucking nailed it on the head so hard with this.

[-] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 9 points 14 hours ago

Bitumen emulsion. Instant highway?

[-] discomatic@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] BinzyBoi@piefed.ca 6 points 13 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 7 points 15 hours ago

I've never before seen Alberta abbreviated to Alta.

[-] BinzyBoi@piefed.ca 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago

You're right. When postals codes came into use it changed to what we use now.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Alta 3.9

My parents would drink that shit.

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

It's a bad headline because they used litres instead of barrels?? It's not even inaccurate?

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

With oil, barrels is the normal unit of measure. Changing that makes it more difficult to compare to other oil spills.

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