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Sewage, jet fuel spilled in Arctic http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1275316966
Millions of litres of harmful contaminants -- including sewage and jet fuel -- have been spilled across great swaths of Canada's pristine Arctic in recent years, an analysis by The Canadian Press has found.
A classified government database reveals the alarming extent to which Canada's North has been an accidental dumping ground for dangerous liquids.
This never-before released information comes to light as the Harper government reviews its Arctic environmental-protection rules in the wake of a catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.... The analysis found 260 spills in the North over five years. There were 137 spills in the Northwest Territories, 82 in Nunavut and 41 in the Yukon.
Some spills took weeks or even months to clean up, while others were dealt with in a day or less.
In one case, an unspecified amount of diesel seeped from a container in the Yukon for 2,013 days -- more than five years -- before someone finally plugged the leak.
"It begs the question of whether we've got a chronic problem of oversight related to toxic spills in the North," said Craig Stewart, director of the World Wildlife Fund's Arctic program.
"If there are so many repeat occurrences, what are the cumulative effects of these spills and why haven't we heard more about them up until now?"
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