Husky suffered an impairment write-down which caused a significant impact on their adjusted earnings, as well as other major expenses such as the $20 million from Asset retirement obligations (AROs). The oil spill has had significant attention from the company's executive committee with a $107 million cleanup expense in 2016, this oil spill was substantially smaller than others that have occurred in North America and around the world in the last decade but the media has blown its impact out of proportion.