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Article content GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. — County officials in northwest Alberta say a fire that followed a report of an early-morning explosion at an oilfield lease site is under control, and air-quality monitoring has determined there’s no risk to the public. Jason Nesbitt, deputy fire chief with the County of Grande Prairie Fire Services, says winds blew smoke from the blaze north instead of east which it typically does, meaning the smoke blew away from most populated areas. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Fire that followed a reported exp...
“Produced water” is a byproduct of oil and gas extraction and sometimes contains residual petroleum and chemicals and on its website, the Alberta Energy Regulator estimated the Christmas Day spill at about 400 cubic metres (400,000 litres or 2,500 barrels). A pump jack located near the town of Drayton Valley is pictured in this file photo. (Kory Siegers/CBC) The water first flowed into a creek before moving to the North Saskatchewan River, which flows east through Edmonton and into central Saskatchewan, where it meets the South Saskatchewan River and eventually flows into Hudson Bay. A sp...
Pipeline spills about 400,000 litres Some enters North Saskatchewan River December 29, 2020 by Dan Healing, The Canadian Press, Calgary Contaminated water that leaked from an oilfield pipeline on Christmas Day has entered the North Saskatchewan River but has had no detectable impact on it, says a spokesman for Calgary-based oil and gas producer ARC Resources Ltd. The spill was reported by a local landowner at about 2 p.m. last Friday, said Sean Calder, ARC’s vice-president of production, in an interview on Tuesday. “We had guys on site within about an hour ...
Dan Healing December 29, 2020 - 12:38 PM CALGARY - Contaminated water that leaked from an oilfield pipeline on Christmas Day has entered the North Saskatchewan River but has had no detectable impact on it, says a spokesman for Calgary-based oil and gas producer ARC Resources Ltd. The spill was reported by a local landowner at about 2 p.m. last Friday, said Sean Calder, ARC's vice-president of production, in an interview on Tuesday. "We had guys on site within about an hour and then the pipeline was shut in by 4 p.m., I believe," he said. He said the leaked produced...