The Court of Alberta fined Apache Canada Ltd. C$350,000 ($265,357) Oct. 4 after the company pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to operate pipelines in accordance with provincial requirements.
Apache reported a 479,000-gallon spill of produced water affecting about 9.4 acres of public land near Zama City in October 2013. A second pipeline failure in January 2014 resulted in the release of 522,532 gallons of produced water, some of which entered a creek 25 miles northwest of Whitecourt.
Produced water is generally a mix of mostly saltwater with some oil.
The court ordered Apache to pay C$160,000 for the ...
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