Imperial Oil admits communications on toxic leak fell short, says progress being made on cleanup
has admitted it didn’t do a good enough job of communicating to the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation that toxic oil sands tailings had been seeping for months from its Kearl project, and says it has made “significant progress” on cleaning up a separate spill of 5.3 million litres of industrial wastewater at the site.
In a statement posted to Imperial Oil’s website on Monday, the company’s vice-president of upstream, Simon Younger, expressed his “deepest apologies” for the spill in February. However, the company doesn’t know how much of the toxic water has seeped into the environment since it first noticed the problem in May.
As for whether the incidents at Kearl have damaged the reputation of Alberta’s oil sector, Ms. Smith told media Monday that if Imperial Oil had been “radically transparent right from the very beginning,” then months of toxic tailings seepage into the environment and millions of litres of water spilling from a drainage pond might not have made headlines.
“I would hope that in future our energy sector is a lot more pro-active when these types of incidents occur,” she said. The oil company said Monday that all affected surface ice and snow in the area of the February spill have been removed and safely disposed of, and it would work closely with the AER to certify the cleanup.
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