<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi folks</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv165059518"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div><div class="yiv165059518clearfix" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; zoom: 1;"><div class="yiv165059518strapline" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color:
transparent; line-height: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Saw this online at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theobserver.ca/2013/04/10/cause-of-water-overflow-being-investigated" style="background-color:transparent;">http://www.theobserver.ca/2013/04/10/cause-of-water-overflow-being-investigated</a></span></div><div class="yiv165059518strapline" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1em;"><br></div><div class="yiv165059518strapline" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1em;">Fire and a spill of partially treated water at Sarnia's refinery today. </div><div class="yiv165059518strapline" style="font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv165059518strapline" style="padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 16px;">Lulu</span></div><div class="yiv165059518strapline" style="padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: FranklinGothicFSMediumCondens, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1em; background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div class="yiv165059518strapline" style="padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color:
transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: FranklinGothicFSMediumCondens, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1em; background-color: transparent;">_____________________________________________</span><br></div><div class="yiv165059518strapline" style="font-family: FranklinGothicFSMediumCondens, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;"><br></div><div class="yiv165059518strapline" style="font-family: FranklinGothicFSMediumCondens, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;">INDUSTRY</div><h2 class="yiv165059518storyTitle" style="font-family: FranklinGothicFSCompressed, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 3.333em;
margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; float: left; width: 650px;">Cause of water overflow being investigated <a rel="nofollow" class="yiv165059518bulle yiv165059518withoutContainer" target="_blank" href="http://www.theobserver.ca/2013/04/10/cause-of-water-overflow-being-investigated#disqus_thread" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2px; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: 5px; background-image: url(http://www.theobserver.ca/assets/img/ico-bulle.png); background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; outline: none; color: rgb(0, 68, 170); cursor: pointer; line-height: 1em; font-family: FranklinGothicFSMediumCondens, arial, sans-serif; display: inline; background-position: 0px -11px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:2px 8px 2px
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class="yiv165059518storyDate" style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:0.917em;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(102, 102, 102);"> Wednesday, April 10, 2013 4:16:00 EDT PM</div></div></div></div><div class="yiv165059518story_photo yiv165059518clearfix" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; zoom: 1; width: 650px;"><img src="http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1297401109256_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80&size=650x&stmp=1365560453306" alt="Imperial Oil Sarnia" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border-width:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;max-width:100%;display:block;"><div class="yiv165059518indent" style="margin:0px;padding:10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(0,
0, 0);"><div style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(255, 255, 255);clear:both;">Imperial Oil Sarnia</div></div></div><div class="yiv165059518clearfix yiv165059518mainContent" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; zoom: 1;"><div class="yiv165059518LeftColumn" style="margin:0px 13px 10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;width:179.875px;float:left;"><div class="yiv165059518LeftBlock yiv165059518share" style="margin:0px 0px 20px;
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</div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;height:0px;width:0px;"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;"></div></div></div><br></li></ul></div></div><div class="yiv165059518story_content" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;width:455px;float:left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Imperial Oil says lightning caused a small fire at about 7:40 p.m. Tuesday in a vent at at the company’s chemical plant in Sarnia.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 15px;">Crews had the fire out and sounded the all-clear within about 20 minutes, said Imperial Oil spokesperson Jon Harding.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">“There were no reports of injuries, no operational impacts.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">But, around the same time, the storm that hit the area resulted in a spill of partially-processed water from the Imperial Oil site to the St. Clair River.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Harding said the overflow was
stopped and downstream water users were notified of the spill.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">“The water that escaped would be a mix of rain water and water from facilities,” he said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">“All water that falls on our site in a storm like that is collected and treated.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Harding said it wasn’t known how much water spilled to the river, but the discharge was sampled and didn’t exceed environmental limits.</div><div
style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Monitoring downstream of Imperial Oil “found no detectable impact,” he added.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">“We’re investigating the cause of the overflow.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Imperial Oil’s Sarnia manufacturing site includes a refinery that produces gasoline, aviation, diesel, home heating and marine fuels, as well as a chemical plant making a range of products that includes polyethylene, solvents, higher olefins and
aromatics.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ca-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;outline:none;color:rgb(0, 68, 170);">paul.morden@sunmedia.ca</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>