<![CDATA["Imperial Oil says there have been no reported effects to wildlife or open waterbodies from a pipeline leak of crude bitumen in eastern Alberta."]]>"Imperial Oil says there have been no reported effects to wildlife or open waterbodies from a pipeline leak of crude bitumen in eastern Alberta."

"Reported." 🤔

Wildlife and water bodies have not reported in...I guess.

"843,000 litres of fluid leaked from the pipeline, with about 172,000 litres of it being crude bitumen and 671,000 litres produced water. Produced water can be contaminated with salt, oil or other substances."

Meanwhile, Cold Lake First Nations is advising community members to avoid the area. The company has not done that, the community is keeping itself safe. Posted on CLFN Facebook.

"Snow fencing has also been placed around the perimeter to restrict wildlife access and act as a bird deterrent, it (Imperial) said."

"Snow fencing." 🤣

Imperial did not report the leak on its website or on its locally-focused Cold Lake operations Facebook page.

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No reported wildlife, water affected from leak near Cold Lake, Imperial Oil says | Globalnews.ca

An Imperial Oil spokeswoman says the pipeline leaked a bitumen emulsion — a mixture of the heavy crude oil, bitumen and water — within the company's leased area near Cold Lake.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/d9799ce9-6e37-4708-b259-cadb26e938d6/imperial-oil-says-there-have-been-no-reported-effects-to-wildlife-or-open-waterbodies-from-a-pipeline-leak-of-crude-bitumen-in-eastern-alberta.RSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 23:37:26 GMTSat, 18 Apr 2026 17:55:03 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "Imperial Oil says there have been no reported effects to wildlife or open waterbodies from a pipeline leak of crude bitumen in eastern Alberta." on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:20:10 GMT]]>And I tried multiple searches using the on-site search tool and came up with nothing about the Imperial Cold Lake area leak on the AER.ca website.

One of the least user-friendly websites I've ever seen. At least for specific information.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/JEmphatically/statuses/116427090191395225https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/JEmphatically/statuses/116427090191395225Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:20:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Imperial Oil says there have been no reported effects to wildlife or open waterbodies from a pipeline leak of crude bitumen in eastern Alberta." on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:13:32 GMT]]>So, while searching the AER website for info about the Imperial leak, I discovered this:

"Imperial Oil Resources Ltd. (Imperial) has applied for an Alternative Fugitive Emission Management Program (alt-FEMP), as enabled in Section 8.10.6 in Directive 060: Upstream Petroleum Industry Flaring, Incinerating and Venting (Directive 060). Imperial is applying for an alt-FEMP on the following 206 sites..."

It's followed by a long list of legal land descriptions which then need to be tracked to locations (not as easy to do as it should be) where the company asked for permission to exceed emissions from flaring, incinerating and venting.

The notice has not been updated with the decision. This is from May of 2024. But we all know it was probably approved.

To get a copy of the specifics you have to use a tool to look it up by "application #" but there is no application # evident on the notice.

This is what passes for "public notification." No one can really know all that is going on out there "in the wild."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/JEmphatically/statuses/116427064093180669https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/JEmphatically/statuses/116427064093180669Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:13:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Imperial Oil says there have been no reported effects to wildlife or open waterbodies from a pipeline leak of crude bitumen in eastern Alberta." on Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:00:00 GMT]]>@JEmphatically That's what they said about the Kearle Lake spill and the toxic tailings leaking into the Athabasca and the corrupt and are just fine with this.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/miki_lou/statuses/116427010865293093https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/miki_lou/statuses/116427010865293093Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:00:00 GMT