BREAKING NEWS: June 12, 2013- Record pipeline spill in Alberta -9.5 MILLION LITRES of tar sands waste water spilled, the biggest of recent disasters in North America, was kept quiet for 10 days by apache oil corp. >bit.ly/16fCJfQ "The substance is the inky black colour of oil, and the treetops are brown. Across a broad expanse of northern Alberta muskeg, the landscape is dead. It has been poisoned by a huge spill of 9.5 million litres of toxic waste from an oil and gas operation in northern Alberta." ..... "The spill was first spotted on June 1. But not until Wednesday did Houston-based Apache Corp. release estimates of its size, which exceeds all of the major recent spills in North America." “Every plant and tree died” in the area touched by the spill, said James Ahnassay, chief of the Dene Tha First Nation "The leak follows a pair of other major spills in the region, including 800,000 litres of an oil-water mixture from Pace Oil and Gas Ltd., and nearly 3.5 million litres of oil from a pipeline run by Plains Midstream Canada." — Nathan Vanderklippe, The Globe and Mail June 12, 2013- "A ruptured pipeline owned by Apache has spilled nearly 60,000 barrels of contaminated water near Zama City, Alberta. A pipeline carrying "produced water" from an oil field to a waste injection site broke on June 1, contaminating 42 hectares of muskeg." bit.ly/11HRFCD - The Tyee
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:34:09 +0000
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