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Nexen Energy oil spill in Alberta prompts environmental alarm over pipelines

07/22/2015

ANZAC, Alta. — Nexen Energy said Wednesday it can narrow down when a pipeline ruptured in northern Alberta to a two-week period, something that one environmental group said is cause for alarm.
 
Ron Bailey, the company's senior vice-president of Canadian operations, said officials still don't know precisely when the pipeline began leaking after a five-million-litre spill was discovered last Wednesday in Anzac, about 35 kilometres southeast of Fort McMurray.
 
But Bailey said the company believes the leak began some time between June 29, when crews finished a cleaning, and July 15, when a contractor discovered it near Nexen Energy's Long Lake oilsands facility.

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