ERNST: Oilsands giant CNRL fined $500K for hydrogen sulphide

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COMMENT: Court hearing today: CNRL to pay $500,000 for breaking the law ($425,000 to be given to U of C, how’s that for Synergy Alberta control?). Encana gets fined nothing for breaking the law frac’ing Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers; regulators get fined nothing for fraudulently covering up for Encana

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by Jessica Ernst June 24, 2016

RE: Oilsands giant CNRL fined $500K for hydrogen sulphide gas leaks by Emily Mertz with files from John Cotter, June 24, 2016, Global News [ http://globalnews.ca/news/2786135/oilsa ... gas-leaks/ ]

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. will have to pay $500,000 for releasing a potentially deadly gas in two separate incidents at its Horizon facility in 2010 and 2012.

Three environmental charges were laid after a hydrogen sulphide gas leak at the oilsands upgrader facility north of Fort McMurray in May 2010.

CNRL’s sulphur recovery unit failed and some gas escaped at the ground level and through a flare stack. It happened on May 28, 2010 but the company didn’t report it until six days later, according to the province. Not immediately reporting a delay contravenes a requirement of the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, so CNRL was fined $350,000. [While Encana gets away with keeping secret the company illegally fracturing Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers for years and the regulators get away with fraudulently covering it up? Where’s Alberta Attorney General?]

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