CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Canada’s federal environment ministry on Thursday opened a formal investigation into a tailings leak at Imperial Oil’s Kearl oil sands mine in northern Alberta.
Environment Canada is investigating a suspected contravention of the Fisheries Act, which prohibits the “deposit of a deleterious substance into water frequented by fish,” or any place where such substances could enter fish-bearing water.
(Reporting by Nia Williams; Editing by Chris Reese)
