One year since Husky oil spill: cleanup nears end, no charges yet
Official from the City of North Battleford are remaining pragmatic in response to the past year’s challenges on the one-year anniversary of the Husky Energy oil spill.
A total of 225,000 litres of oil spilled from a crack in a section of pipe carrying oil near Maidstone, about 160 metres from the banks of the North Saskatchewan River on July 21, 2016. While the spill was identified the morning of July 21, a provincial internal investigation revealed the leak actually started on July 20, 2016.
Husky continued its cleanup in the Finlayson Island area in North Battleford this spring and summer. It completed the cleanup and assessment work, and expected its monitoring work would be finished by the end of July.
Following last year’s old spill, the City of Battleford began using the Town of Battleford’s water supply to supplement its system since it wasn’t able to source water from the North Saskatchewan River. Husky constructed a pipeline for the project.