The Alberta Environment and Parks department today reported that fertilizer company Agrium Inc. has pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to report an ammonia release from its Carseland Nitrogen facility southeast of Calgary in January 2017.
The company, now known as Nutrien, was fined $28,750 for the infraction.
The government department said Agrium, as it was then known, failed to report the ammonia release until Feb. 27, 2017.
“In an agreed statement of facts, Agrium admits that anhydrous ammonia was released at its Carseland facility after a pressure release valve was inadvertently jarred to an open position,” the department said.
The result was a violation of the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act.
