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Encana waste dumping heavy on crop land at Rosebud Alberta

By | Published July 25, 2019 | Full size is 768 × 1014 pixels

Encana/Ovintiv dumping waste heavy (illegally) at Rosebud; it reeked of hydrocarbons. From Page 7, A Landowner’s Guide to Drilling Waste Disposal from Oil and Gas Wells by industry’s self regulator: “In this method, drilling wastes are sprayed at very low application rates. … Wastes containing hydrocarbons are not allowed to be disposed of by this method.”

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