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MONTREAL (AFP) – An lubricator move nearby the autochthonous community of Little Buffalo in Canada's Alberta domain was partly contained by a beaver dam, a rustic surround authorised said Wednesday.

Oil began unseaworthy Apr 29 from a scuttlebutt happiness to Plains Midstream Canada in northern Alberta about heptad kilometers (4.3 miles) from the village, said Alberta Environment. In the end, it spilled 28,000 barrels.

The lubricator almost sullied a river but was contained by whatever small bodies of standing liquid and a beaver dam, officials said.

"It's genuine that there is a beaver barrier in the Atlantic and that it initially contained the spill," rustic Environment chief Rob Renner told reporters by phone.

"The fortuity point of the scuttlebutt has been isolated and there is no further line of vulgar oil," he noted.