Imperial Oil Resources Limited, Canada’s largest petroleum refiner, is taking steps to prevent toxic, tailings-contaminated water from leaking onto Crown lands from one of its oil-sands sites located in Alberta following an order from the federal government.
The leak has been ongoing for months and follows an original spill of over 5 million litres of contaminated water that occurred in May 2022 at Imperial Oil’s site in Kearl, Alberta, as the Globe and Mail first reported.
Imperial Oil notified the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) about the initial leak in May 2022, but Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) did not learn about it until the AER issued an Environmental Protection Order and posted an online statement about it on Feb. 7….