As new environmental charges were recently laid against Algoma Steel for a series of chemical spills that occurred in June of 2022, a local environmentalist says he has uncovered additional spills by the company that have not yet been reported to the public through the media.
Those charges follow two in April that were laid in response to a spill on June 17, 2022, which wasn’t known to SooToday at the time it occurred and was not reported until those charges were made public last month. ”Algoma Steel seems to have spills in pairs in one month, with at least one spill being kept quiet,” said Rasaiah. ”It becomes confusing when there is so many close to one another.”
Rasaiah said he is concerned that the company is not meeting its obligations when it comes to reporting the spills. In addition to those spills, Wheeler said there was a seventh significant spill that occurred on Nov. 28, 2022, when an unknown amount of contact cooling water spilled to the ground from an overflow of the blast furnace discharge slurry sump to the boat slip. The MESC said the spill was contained and samples taken showed no exceedences.