Northern Alberta hit with toxic spill from Apache pipeline

‘Every Tree and Plant Died’: Massive Toxic Spill Guts Alberta

The area that died from the Apache pipeline wastewater spill near Zama City, Alberta, Canada, in Dene Tha’ territory.

Indian Country Today, August 26, 2013

A toxic waste spill, the largest of its kind in North America, has destroyed a chunk of landscape in northern Alberta.

“The substance is the inky black colour of oil, and the treetops are brown,” reported The Globe and Mail in a recent story. “Across a broad expanse of northern Alberta muskeg, the landscape is dead. It has been poisoned by a huge spill of 9.5 million litres of toxic waste from an oil and gas operation in northern Alberta, the third major leak in a region whose residents are now questioning whether enough is being done to maintain aging energy infrastructure.”