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A pipeline leak in\u00a0Sarnia, Ont., has been located more than a week after a sheen reportedly turned up on the St. Clair River.<\/p>\n
Sun-Canadian Pipe Line says it pinpointed the leak on Saturday morning, nine days after the company said it was made aware of it on March 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Suncor, which operates a\u00a0Sarnia\u00a0refinery, told local media it had located a “hydrocarbon sheen” on the St. Clair River on March 11 and it had been contained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The major Canadian\u00a0oil\u00a0company later said the leak was believed to be from Sun-Canadian, which operates a refined\u00a0oil\u00a0pipeline between\u00a0Sarnia\u00a0and the Toronto area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sun-Canadian says the impacted pipeline remains shut down and cleanup activities are ongoing to address the leak near Sun Avenue and St. Clair Parkway, in Sarnia’s petrochemical hub.<\/p>\n
Aamjiwnaang First Nation, whose reserve is located just adjacent to the spill, said it had been left in the dark about its size and extent.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It also requested help from police to manage an expected increase in truck traffic carrying fuel products that would have otherwise been moved along the shuttered pipeline.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Walpole Island First Nation, downstream of the refineries along the St. Clair River, said earlier this month the spill had been contained and its water system was unaffected.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sun-Canadian’s pipeline burst in 2013 and released around 60,000 litres of diesel. The pipe, built in 1953, was corroded and a six-inch rupture opened up in the wall when it became too thin to withstand the pressure, according to a review published by the Technical Standards and Safety Authority, Ontario’s pipeline regulator.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some of the spill ended up in a nearby sewer system and reached the St. Clair River. The Walpole Island First Nation closed its drinking water intake as a precaution. About 22,000 litres of spilled diesel was recovered in the cleanup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-556899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}