John UptonA major spill of toxic oil waste has wiped out trees and vegetation across a 104-acre swath of Alberta, Canada. The apparent cause of the spill: The rupture of a five-year-old pipeline that was designed to last at least 30 years.
Dene Tha via Nathan VanderKlippe
Apache’s oil spill in Alberta
The pipeline spilled 2.5 million gallons of a waste mixture of oil and water, which the company responsible, Houston-based Apache Corp., downplayed as “salty water” with “trace amounts of oil.”
Please follow this link to the rest of the article at Grist: http://grist.org/news/pipeline-spills-oil-waste-over-more-than-100-acres-of-alberta/