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Title: Clam beds at risk after sinking tug spills fuel near Bella Bella, says local First Nation
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2016-10-13 21:08:53
Canadian

[Alta_redneck]

Theres a spill team ready to go at all the oil loading platforms give them a call

[andyt]

Where is the nearst platform?

[Alta_redneck]

fucked if I know, but I bet they have boats loaded with everything they need. Or as BC has demonstrated before, just sit around and stick your thumbs up your asses looking the next guy to do something

[andyt]

Well but where are these platforms? What is an oil loading platform? Loading oil to be shipped out? We don't have that, which is why Enbridge and Kinder Morgan want to build terminals to do so.

[Hyack]

$1:

the Western Canada Marine Response Corporation has deployed vessels and crew from a base in Prince Rupert several hundred kilometres away.

Athlone Island is pretty well due west of Strutz's AO on Denny island, how long it will take to get all the emergency equipment there with all the inclement weather on the coast right now is anyone's guess.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tug-and-fuel-barge-runs-aground-near-bella-bella-1.3803295

[andyt]

The article says 24 hours. But that's what my questions were leading to - where is there a spill response capability closer than PR? Except of course we in BC must be so stupid, we don't use it even if it's closer. That part of the coast doesn't have many people on it, I would be surprised if there are many or any oil loading platforms there. But then I'm not sure what exactly oil loading platforms do. Maybe he thinks we're like Alberta, with oil infrastructure everywhere.

[BartSimpson]

$1:

Members of the Heiltsuk Nation responded to the scene, along with the Canadian Coast Guard, and are monitoring the environmental effects of the spill and consulting lawyers to determine how much they can extort from the owners of the tugboat.

Figured the story needed a little accuracy tossed in.

[andyt]

Good for them. You fuck up the environment, you should pay.

[Zipperfish]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

fucked if I know, ...

You should have stopped there.

[Zipperfish]

andyt andyt:

The article says 24 hours. But that's what my questions were leading to - where is there a spill response capability closer than PR? Except of course we in BC must be so stupid, we don't use it even if it's closer. That part of the coast doesn't have many people on it, I would be surprised if there are many or any oil loading platforms there. But then I'm not sure what exactly oil loading platforms do. Maybe he thinks we're like Alberta, with oil infrastructure everywhere.

The Heiltsuk have been complaining about that particular tanker for years.

[herbie]

Well because it's technically defined as a push-barge, it avoids the tanker ban.

You know, glue 2 lawnchairs in a Subaru Brat or weld up the windows out of a Ford Transit and it's not a truck and ducks the chicken-tax. Offer TV and cellular customers fewer choices and higher prices and it 'meets' the CRTC regs....

Ironic that's it's been running for years and now it martyrs itself to the anti-pipeline cause.

[Strutz]

Ok. I kinda figured it would be Hyack who would have uploaded this story. I was not going to upload it myself but since he did and mentioned in a post that it happened near me...

Yes. I am living very close to where this incident took place. Where to start and what to say is difficult considering I hear different things from different sources and this incident is still under investigation so I'm not going to bore everyone with mostly 2nd hand info. However...

So much has happened these last several days. There are so many people involved in the investigation and containment/clean-up efforts. Media coverage is not quite accurate at all (imagine that!) but I'm not going to go into all that bs. Besides, everyone is going to believe what they want to believe anyway. I know many people DIRECTLY involved in what is going down up here. My 'hood is so disrupted right now by all this.

All I will say for now is thank God that barge was empty and no one was injured.

Damage has been done environmentally. It's awful.

[andyt]

I shows the kind of slack a day attitude we've had towards the coast. "Let's wait until something happens before we make this tug have a pilot on board."

[herbie]

It's the "we're so superior" "These things only happen in 3rd world countries" attitudes we have here.
You can put all the safety measures you like and accidents still happen, people screw up. What if that had been a full barge of bitumen, sitting on the bottom where you can't clean it up, spreading up and down the channel by the tides?