H2S death baffles cops 
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H2S death baffles cops
By Canadian Press
SUNDRE -- Police are trying to figure out what a man was up to when he was killed apparently by deadly hydrogen sulphide gas while tampering with a sour gas well.
"I suppose there's only one man that knows that and he's no longer with us," said Sgt. Jay Arsenault of Sundre RCMP.
The man's body was discovered Wednesday shortly after 6:30 p.m. when Shell Canada employees responded to an alarm at a heater building on a Shell lease site about 30 km north of Sundre, 110 km northwest of Calgary.
The man had parked his vehicle about 350 metres from the lease, taken some socket wrenches and some pliers, hopped a chain-link fence, wandered around the site and eventually broke into the locked building.
He turned off the fan inside the building, which activated an alarm at the remote control centre for the facility. He then tampered with a valve, causing an immediate, high-pressure release of hydrogen sulphide.
The dead man's identity has not been released and foul play is not suspected.
Arsenault said he was a 34-year-old man from nearby Caroline.
Submitted on 04/12/2002
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cbx6@shaw.ca
Reference:
Edmonton Sun, 12 April 2002
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