Province Responding to Haida Gwaii Ship Threat
Victoria, B.C.- The Province of B.C. has activated Emergency Management BC to work with other agencies dealing with a cargo ship that is drifting off the coast of Moresby Island.
The ship, the Simushir, lost engine power about 12 miles northwest of Gowgaia Bay, and is adrift in high seas. The Coast Guard has said it is drifting parallel to the coastline.
The Simushir is carrying 500 metric tonnes of bunker fuel land 60 metric tonnes of diesel.
Emergency Management BC (EMBC) has activated its emergency protocols to connect all partners involved and ensure a coordinated
response.
Specifically, EMBC is engaged with its federal counterparts at the Canadian Armed Forces, and the Canadian Coast Guard to ensure a co- ordinated response. EMBC is coordinating calls with all partners at regular intervals throughout the day to make sure that B.C. is providing all supports possible to help with the federal government’s lead efforts.
These will continue until the incident is resolved.
A B.C. Incident Management Team has been activated, which includes Emergency Environmental Response Officers (EEROs) and other technical
specialists. The Province is also contacting its partners in the BC Pacific States Oil Spill Task Force both to notify them of the risk and to ask them to provide mutual aid as needed based on the outcome of
efforts to restore power to the vessel.
Comments
As Sgt. Schultz used to say, Very interesting………….
And more to come if that pipeline gets built.
Wait wait wait!
The Haida don’t need help!
The local op250 experts think that the Haida can dispatch their full fleet and solve this themselves!
Dreamers abound like weeds in summer.
@bcracer – I know you are trying to be all ‘witty’ but this would be avoidable with the pipeline..
PG101. Where is your logic? How would this be avoidable with the pipeline? This will be commonplace with the pipeline! Right now the government is being forced to get on this right away. It is very embarrassing when one considers Mr. Harper has already sold the oil to China and the first nations people are not going to allow this pipeline! They don’t want this to go globally public! Has anyone seen the joke about Mr. Harper coming in for a landing after flying over the first nations of BC. He states “Well that appeared quite uneventful and seems to go quite well!” Underneath his plane are about 5000 arrows stuck in the fuselage . lol Just to be “witty”
Number one Western3 is this ship was travelling up the coastline and then about to turn a hard left for Russia at the Queen Charlotte Islands when it ran out of power already days into its voyage. Difference with tankers is they won’t be running up and down the coastline but straight out across the ocean. They won’t be fully under their own power until they have cleared the coast and the tugs disconnect.
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