EDMONTON – A numbered Alberta company has received its marching orders for cleaning up a large fertilizer spill into one of the province’s rivers.
Last week, a storage tank owned by 1370996 Alberta Ltd. spilled almost 10,000 litres of ammonium nitrate, much of which ended up in the Little Bow River.
Ammonium nitrate is toxic to fish.
Alberta Environment has issued an environmental protection order to the company that all its clean-up plans and monitoring data must be submitted to the government for approval.
The order comes after the government’s local compliance manager decided the company wasn’t doing enough to clean up the mess in the river, which flows across part of southern Alberta.
A government spokesman says a separate investigation is under way to determine if any penalties may apply to the spill.
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