Five months (and counting) into CNRL spill, questions of why more wasn’t done after 2009 leak

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Sept. 27, 2013 –  Global News

A series of spills in northern Alberta is still oozing bitumen more than five months after the leaks began. And with no end in sight, Alberta’s Environment Ministry has taken what it says is an unprecedented step, asking Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. to partially drain an oil-soaked water body before it freezes this winter and traps a bitumen gash underneath it.

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