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- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
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.
It’s a bad headline because they used litres instead of barrels?? It’s not even inaccurate?
With oil, barrels is the normal unit of measure. Changing that makes it more difficult to compare to other oil spills.
I get your point, but it’s a little funny you’re arguing for barrels while simultaneously not knowing how much a barrel is.
I would argue using an international standard of measurement for volume is not much of a violation.
Well, the Wikipedia article listing oil spill sizes is in Tonnes, so it sure is useful knowing how many barrels /s