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Marine Oil Spill: Preparedness & Response
Digest covering the major observations of marine oil spill preparedness, response and recovery examples from around the world.
Digest covering the major observations of marine oil spill preparedness, response and recovery examples from around the world.
This volume concentrates on vessel traffic and associated oil movements along the west coast of Canada, particularly for the years 2011-2012.
Five years after the Nathan E. Stewart sank, spilling the equivalent of a railcar’s worth of diesel fuel into the ocean,1 we want to know: could a similar incident happen today and how prepared are we if it does?
Clear Seas launches eighth webpage in key issues series to explain how ship-source spills are cleaned up in Canadian waters
The Canadian Marine Shipping Risk Forum hosted a webinar on Marine Liability and Compensation: Who Pays for an Oil Spill in Canada and Beyond? to share work, ideas, concerns, questions and issues about the work of the Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund.
Clear Seas requested a study of governance systems and practices for oil spill response in leading ports of other countries to identify possible options for improvement of the regimes in Canadian ports.
The Voluntary Protection Zone implemented to keep commercial ships at a safe distance from the west coast of Haida Gwaii is extended.
New mapping tool and associated report developed to support marine spatial planning in Canada’s Pacific Coast.
As shipping volumes increase on Canada’s West Coast, the government of BC has a vested interest in better understanding the risks particularly associated with increased ship-based oil movements.
If an oil spill were to happen in Canadian waters tomorrow, who would pay for it? Learn about the costs and liabilities related to ship-source oil spills.