https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/cp-sask-oil-train-1.5470543
[As always from the oil industry spill playbook. Here's the message
after the initial news cycles have faded from memory indicating the
spill is bigger than the original estimate, and they don't yet have
clean up plan. What is missing from this coverage is that the 'new' and
'safer' tanker car design still failed miserably in preventing leaks.
Stay tuned for a bigger total spill amount in weeks to come and the
remediation period to stretch out beyond 'several months'.
In my opinion, it's fair to include the government of Saskatchewan as
part of the oil industry.]
Spill from latest Sask. oil train derailment larger than thought
Province now says an estimated 1.6 million litres leaked on highway, up
from 1.2 million
Guy Quenneville · CBC News · Posted: Feb 20, 2020
The Saskatchewan government says more oil spilled than previously
thought during a train derailment earlier this month near the small
hamlet of Guernsey.
Citing new information from CP Rail, the government says roughly 1.6
million litres of diluted bitumen were spilled after a train jumped the
tracks on Feb. 6, up from an initial estimate of 1.2 million litres.
The estimate increased "because more oil spilled over the course of the
emergency and crews were unable to stop leaks until the fires were
extinguished," a government spokesperson said Thursday.
The new amount is more than six times what was released into the North
Saskatchewan River in the 2016 Husky Energy pipeline spill.
It was the second crash and spill near Guernsey — a community about 100
kilometres east of Saskatoon — in less than two months.
During the first, on Dec. 9, 2019, 1.5 million litres of oil was released.
The government said both spills were contained to the railway and
highway ditches and impacted "relatively small areas."
CP has said no waterways were affected in either crash.
"Next steps include the development of a site remediation plan to
address all environmental impacts resulting from the derailment," the
government spokesperson said. "Remediation and management of the
derailment site is expected to take several months to complete."
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