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On March 22, a good owned by Check Energy Ltd. released 60,000 litres of crude oil. The Alberta Energy Regulator said connected its website that nary impacts to wildlife were reported.
RCMP investigating March 22 spill from good owned by Check Energy
Emily Rae Pasiuk · CBC News
· Posted: Mar 26, 2025 3:36 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago
Vandalism is behind a spill of thousands of litres of crude lipid from a good adjacent Cold Lake, Alta., says the institution that owns the well.
On March 22, a Check Energy Ltd. good 26 kilometres southbound of Cold Lake released 60,000 litres of crude oil.
The Alberta Energy Regulator was notified the aforesaid day. On its compliance dashboard, the AER said nary impacts to wildlife were reported.
The merchandise "was a nonstop effect of intentional vandalism," Ryan Mitton, CEO of Calgary-based Check Energy, told CBC successful an email.
"We are moving with section RCMP. The [60,000 litre] release has been recovered with remedial efforts complete."
Alberta RCMP could not corroborate that vandalism was the origin of the spill, but said they were alert of an incidental and that they are investigating.
Renato Gandia, a spokesperson for the vigor regulator, said the AER's precedence is to "ensure companies comply with requirements to instrumentality effectual and contiguous enactment to support nationalist information and the environment."
Cold Lake is astir 300 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.
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