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In July 2010, a producer well which extracts bitumen, began leaking from too much pressure. This high temperature, bitumen containing, steam leaked for almost 36 hours demanding the shut down of seven wells at the Jackfish oil sands site. The leak occurred 15km from Conklin. The fallen bitumen coated the ground near the leak making it difficult to work in near the site and environmentalists worried that oil could have spread to the Sunday Creek which flows into a network of major rivers in the region.<ref>Nathan Vanderklippe,[http://dirtyoilsands.org/news/article/devon_energy_shuts_down_oil_sands_wells_after_bitumen-laced_steam_leak Devon Energy shuts down oil sands wells after bitumen-laced steam leak], Dirty Oil Sands, July 12, 2012.</ref>