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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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Canada: Alberta Tests Athabasca River to Gauge Oil Sand Leak’s Toxicity
Posted by Globe and Mail: Kelly Cryderman on March 27th, 2013
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