Less than two months after a spill at an oil pipeline dumped 900,000 litres of contaminated water--so called "produced water"--in northwestern Alberta, there's been another spill in the oil-rich province.
Husky Energy is going to have to pay a total penalty of $3.8 million after pleading guilty to permitting the spill of 225,000 litres of "heavy crude oil in water frequented by fish."