CN Rail fined $2.5 million for small North Saskatchewan River diesel spill

Canadian National Rail has been fined $2.5 million for spilling a pickup tank’s worth of diesel into the North Saskatchewan River in 2015.
The company pleaded guilty in Edmonton provincial court Thursday to four offences related to the 90-litre spill, which left a smelly, two-kilometre sheen on the river.
The spill occurred at a train fuelling station in CN’s Bissell yard near 160 Street on April 9, 2015 , according to an agreed statement of facts. 
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