Major Pipeline Oil Leak Spills Thousands of Barrels into Alberta River

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6. Headline is a bit misleading

475,000 litres is about 2,988 barrels (at 42 gallons per oil barrel, the standard used by most producers.)
Granted that 3,000 "is" thousands, but the 475,000 jumps out; switching the word "litres" to "barrels" way overstates the volume, probably an innocent error.
For example, this spill is equivalent to about one-third of the capacity of a typical 9,000 gallon, two-axle tanker trailer...
the type you see refilling the below-ground tanks at your local filling station. Any spill, however small, is always a disaster for the environment. Still a lot of crap in the river. Sad.