Alberta pipeline spill site still a mess despite assurances: Greenpeace

Alberta pipeline spill site still a mess despite assurances: Greenpeace by The Canadian Press, July 20, 2012, The Tyee
The pictures appear to show large globs of oil fouling vegetation and an oily sheen on the water. Samples of oil and water smelled sharply of oil and burned rubber. Pipeline owner Plains Midstream Canada says on its website that remediation on the site was completed last December. At the same time as Greenpeace was releasing the picture, the Alberta government announced it will commission a pipeline safety review. The review will be led by the provincial regulator — the same agency that Greenpeace spokesman Mike Hudema says is part of the problem.

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