Despite concerns expressed by a pair of local politicians, officials say there has not been a second leak of oil into the Red Deer River.
Bob Curran, section leader for Energy Resources Conservation Board communications, said on Monday that his office received no reports of a second leak.
ERCB investigators did scour the area after hearing that there may have been a second leak.
They found nothing beyond the crude that had leaked from the original spill, said Curran.
Mountain View County Councillor Paddy Munro said on Monday that he and Wildrose MLA Joe Anglin, who represents the Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre riding, heard while touring the river on Saturday that there may have been a second, smaller spill.
Munro said they were looking around downstream from Sundre at the site where the pipeline owned by Plains Midstream Canada leaked an estimated 3,000 barrels of crude oil. The spill flowed about 30 kilometres downstream to the mouth of the Gleniffer Lake reservoir on June 7.
Munro said he and Anglin had planned to get a closer look at the site, but were unable to cope with the odour.
They then spoke to some oilfield workers who told them there had been a new leak, but that it was much smaller than the June 7 spill.
Munro said he didn’t report the leak to the Energy Resources Conservation Board because he felt they would already have known about it.
Cleanup efforts continue, including about 20 booms stretched across the Red Deer River and additional booms across Gleniffer Lake to contain the spilled crude.
Officials from Plains Midstream could not be reached for comment.