Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.
A major fuel spill is causing major concerns for residents just south of Quesnel city limits. According to the Lhtako Dene Nation 110,000 litres of fuel may have spilled underground from the Lhtako Gas and Convenience Store from December 2020 until June 2022 when the leak was discovered. The details of the spill only came public in early April 2023 after a news release was issued by the nation.
Houston officials are investigating the cause of the electrical failure that left millions of people without clean water for almost two days and closed local schools. Investigators were preparing to descend into manholes at the city’s biggest water-treatment complex to examine cables suspected of being a possible source of Sunday’s calamitous outage, Erin Jones, a spokesperson for the Houston Public Works Department, said on Tuesday. Those inspections could be delayed because of expected thunderstorms that would make it hazardous to go underground, she said.
A Petro-Canada station in Charlottetown has reported a loss of 4,500 litres of gasoline from its underground storage system, the provincial Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action said Wednesday. However, an official at the gas station at the corner of Belvedere and University avenues told CBC News the gas is believed to have leaked into a containment tank, so there shouldn't be environmental damage.
A historic tunnel excavation has been completed on the Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel in Vancouver. The infrastructure project aims to make the region’s drinking water system more earthquake resilient and help meet growing demand for safe drinking water. “The tunnel underneath the Burrard Inlet was excavated with the first slurry tunnel boring machine to be used in Canada, and the work was being done up to 100 metres underground,” said Sav Dhaliwal, chair of Metro Vancouver’s board of directors, in a statement. “Completing this tunnel is an important milestone in this project and a remarkable testament to the innovation that is being used in Metro Vancouver to bring clean drinking water from the North Shore to the rest of the region.”
