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   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   > In edm.general "(?_?) "  wrote:   
   > : And to the growing list of foreign companies who are turning our land into   
   a   
   > : fetid wasteland.   
   > : And where is Harper right now? . . . .  Yeah . . . . looking to invite   
   more of   
   > : the same.   
   > : ____________________________________   
   > : CALGARY ? The Canadian Press - Friday, Nov. 07 2014   
   >   
   > : Chinese-owned company Sinopec fined $150K over Alberta pipeline spill   
   >   
   >   
   > : A Chinese-owned company has been fined after a contractor?s mistake led to   
   a   
   > : pipeline spill that contaminated a creek flowing into the Athabasca River   
   in   
   > : northern Alberta.   
   >   
   > : Sinopec Daylight Energy is to pay $150,000 for a spill near Fox Creek in   
   > : northwestern Alberta between Feb. 2 and Feb. 4, 2012.   
   >   
   > : According to an agreed statement of facts, the spill happened as a result   
   of a   
   > : contractor?s attempts to restart compressors at two wells, which produced   
   a mix   
   > : of natural gas, hydrocarbon liquids and salty, contaminated water.   
   >   
   > : In order to restart compressors at the second well, the contractor had to   
   > : temporarily bypass emergency shutdown devices, which stop production if   
   > : internal pressure exceeds the pipeline?s capacity to safely handle it.   
   >   
   > : The contractor then forgot to reset the device, leaving it in a bypass   
   state,   
   > : the statement says.   
   >   
   > : Two days later, the contractor realized that no water was flowing into a   
   > : disposal well, despite the fact the well was producing.   
   >   
   > : ?(He) then realized the pipeline must be leaking,? the statement says. ?He   
   > : immediately shut the pipeline down and notified his foreman.?   
   >   
   > : The spill sent 391,000 litres of contaminated, salty water into Marsh Head   
   > : Creek, a tributary of the Athabasca River.   
   >   
   > : That was enough to exceed allowable levels of those contaminants 7.4   
   kilometres   
   > : downstream of the spill.   
   >   
   > : ?No dead fish were actually observed because Marsh Head Creek was covered   
   with   
   > : snow and ice at the time of the release,? says the statement.   
   >   
   > : The Alberta Energy Regulator said the cleanup took until March.  Final   
   > : remediation wasn?t complete until June 2013.   
   >   
   > : The cleanup cost nearly $10 million, the regulator said.   
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   > : _________________________________________________________________   
   >   
   > : What are the details of the cleanup costs?  WHO paid them?  And in what   
   amounts?   
      
      
   On 11/7/2014 8:08 PM, The Doctor wrote:   
   > What a joke of a fine.   
      
   What a joke of the kinds of governments we have in Alberta and Ottawa.   
      
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