226:. It is estimated that 46,000 barrels of crude oil were spilled along the pipeline route. Many of the abandoned buildings and vehicles contain hazardous materials and telegraph wire has entangled animals such as moose and caribou. Clean-up of telegraph wire began in 2015 and most of the wire along the trail has been coiled up for removal. Remediation work began in 2018 to remove contaminants, telegraph wire and other safety hazards along the trail and expected to be completed in 2020. Remediation of the trail will allow the creation of Doi T'oh territorial park to proceed as set out in the
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camps and remove all personnel. Shortly after the line was declared as surplus to the war effort. Imperial Oil purchased equipment at Norman Wells for $ 3 million. Imperial also paid $ 1 million for the
Whitehorse refinery, which had been installed at a cost of $ 27 million, which they then dismantled and shipped to Alberta. The salvage rights for the remainder of the line were sold for $ 700,000 and carried out by George Price of
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were specially designed to be able to use the Norman Wells crude as fuel. An additional 19 pump stations moved the refined fuel along the Alaska
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