EDMONTON – An Alberta oil and gas company has been fined $15,000 for failing to report a potentially lethal amount of hydrogen sulphide, or sour gas, had been released into the atmosphere.
The Alberta Energy Regulator says a tank at a Mcland Resources work site near the hamlet of Tees, northeast of Red Deer, ruptured in 2023.
The toxic gas was released for more than three hours.
The regulator says the company was aware of the rupture and worked to stop the release but failed to report it.
The regulator says people several kilometres downwind from the site called with concerns.
It says nobody was harmed but the concentration of gas could have been lethal.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 18, 2025.
