Confirming the company’s recent admission that high-pressurized steaming practices may be at fault for the ongoing bitumen seepage near Cold Lake, an independent technical review by the regulator has confirmed the year-long blowout is not only the result of wellbore failures.
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Heavy oil continues to gush uncontrolled – now for 10 weeks and counting – from an underground oilsands well in the Cold Lake area of northeast Alberta, killing animals and vegetation.
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