The Canadian Pacific Railway train that derailed in rural Saskatchewan earlier this week leaked more than four times the amount of oil spilled during the 2016 Husky Energy pipeline disaster in the same province.
An estimated 1.5 million litres of crude leaked from the train, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) said Wednesday evening in its first major update on the derailment just after midnight on Monday.
By comparison, 225,000 litres of oil leaked into the North Saskatchewan River from a Husky line near Maidstone in July 2016.