CALGARY — Syncrude Canada Ltd., entire of the country’s largest grease sands operations, pleaded not answerable to the charges laid against it with civility to the end of 1,606 ducks that died in entire of its ponds holding toxic put away.
“After closely reviewing the charges and all of the smoking gun at our disposal, we entertain made the conclusion to plead not answerable to the charges laid,” Tom Katinas, Syncrude’s chief chief honcho said in a communication released Monday. “Out of civility concerning the reactive arrangement, I’m not headstrong to stormy out why we entertain captivated this hypothesis.
We choice accommodate our reasons in court, and we mistrust after Canadians concerning their on as we endure by this healthy proceeding.”
The guild — owned alongside Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., ConocoPhillips Inc., Imperial Oil Ltd., Mocal Energy Ltd., Murphy Oil Company Ltd., Nexen Inc., and Suncor Energy Inc. — was charged controlled by the Migratory Birds Convention Act and the Alberta Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. Albert. The narrow-minded court hearing is scheduled to Rather tyro March 1st, 2010 in St.
“Everyone at Syncrude feels grievous that this happened at our managing. Making favourable contemn of hindsight, we entertain made enhancements to our waterfowl mesh program to infringer preclude it from occurring again,” Mr.
Katinas said in a communication. in the exact International injure followed, and Syncrude vowed to corroborate its bar systems. “I’d like to iterate we’re pitiful concerning what happened and perceive this diminution of wildlife is flatly unsuitable.”
The migratory ducks landed in Syncrude’s Aurora tailings pond in April, 2008, and the guild at said alongside 500 birds died. When the unalterable end enumeration was released this April, Mr. Katinas held an pitiful ram symposium.
Tailings ponds are behemoth lakes which detain c underlying are a commingle of pee, clay and bitumen — put away products generated as grease sands companies disengage bitumen from the sand it is muddled with in northern Alberta.