Radioactive spill ship in legal limbo off North Vancouver
By James Weldon, North Shore News
Empty ship for sale by bankrupt owners while cargo's costs subject of civil suit
Fuel tanker runs aground in Northwest Passage
Globe and Mail, Sep. 02, 2010
A fuel tanker loaded with 9 million litres of diesel fuel has run aground in the Northwest Passage, Canadian coast guard officials confirmed Thursday.
The Canadian-registered vessel, named 'Nanny,' hit a sandbar Wednesday in the area near Simpson Strait, Nunavut. It was carrying supplies to Northern communities.
What laws would apply if there was a BP-type spill along the B.C. coast?
Graham Walker And Dionysios Rossi, Vancouver Sun, August 3, 2010
Perhaps no single story has dominated news coverage recently like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It has raised questions about the legal status of offshore oil and gas development and tanker traffic along the west coast of British Columbia.
Could carbon credit schemes save the whale?
Liz Kalauger, Environmental Research Web, Feb 26, 2010
It's likely that commercial whaling has released around one hundred million tons of carbon to the atmosphere over a century or so. That's according to researcher Andrew Pershing, who believes that carbon credit schemes could be employed as an incentive to protect whales and large fish such as bluefin tuna.
Vessels' collision sparks massive oil spill
By PAIGE HEWITT and DANE SCHILLER, Houston Chronicle, Jan. 24, 2010
Cleanup in Port Arthur under way; evacuations lifted
Escort tugs rescue drifting tanker
By KYLE HOPKINS, Anchorage Daily News, January 17th, 2010
EXXON: Ship loses its power generators as it was departing sound.
An Exxon tanker carrying more than 25 million gallons of Alaska crude oil lost power early Sunday morning while leaving Prince William Sound and had to be towed to safety, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
All ahead stop
Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch, December 30, 2009
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Charly Hengen
None of the fancy technology aboard the 136-foot tug Pathfinder -- not the satellite positioning system, not the radar, not the depth finder capable of sounding depth warnings -- prevented a Dec. 23 collision with Bligh Reef, and Alaskans monitoring oil tanker safety in Prince William Sound say that ought to serve as a warning for everyone concerned about the northern environment.
