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ONE EMERGENCY AND SEVERAL CRISESSource for the above
It seems obvious that this emergency is quite complex. One could literally speak of several crises happening conjointly, or at least several problems, as opposed to viewing the Nestucca as one single emergency. These include the environmental pollution covering 130 km of Canadian coast in spots; the death of about 50,000 ocean birds in Canada and the United States; damage to marine plants, wildlife and the marine ecosystem in general; a public uproar, expressed through a mounting riot atmosphere in some communities, death threats issued against CCG officials and the visit of two federal ministers to calm things down; a legitimacy crisis for the CCG triggered from the public and the media's criticisms and an official blame by a government's official, the CCG changing its on-scene commander during the crisis; the fishermens' difficulties after the closing of six large fishing areas for several weeks; the despair and disgust felt by local residents over a gluey and smelly black substance intruding their home and the feeling of having to have been let down by their government; the pressure and financial burden on the tanker's owners, Sause Brothers, and its insurance company; the tarnishing of the oil industry being, one more time, identified as a polluter; or some international tensions between the United States and Canada over the towing of the Nestucca and errors in information. etc Page 3 of 24
Page 19 of 24 has this dire warning from1996:What Crises Could Teach Us about Complexity and Systemic ...
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by I DESCHAMPS - 1996 - Cited by 11 - Related articles
date of the Nestucca's collision, and ends on March 22,1989, the date when ... communities, death threats issued against CCG officials and the visit of two federal ..... more than 100 reports per month on oil spills of all sizes compared to about ...
"..... learning seems quite urgent in Canada as the massive exploitation of North Sea oil and the gigantic oil sands resources lying in Alberta and Saskatchewan are on their way [66, 70]."
Effects of an oil spill and freeze event on Intertidal community structure in Washington. Final report
MN Dethier - 1991 - osti.gov... the coast of Washington; (2) to document the effects of the Nestucca oil spill ... Resource Type: Technical Report. ... FORECASTING; FREEZING; HABITAT; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENERGY SOURCES; FEDERAL REGION ...
Conservation of ecological areas: The economic bottom line
D Stanley, FPP Council - 1997 - parks-parcs.ca... to the Nestucca Oil Spill. Final Report presented to the British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Victoria. 13. NOAA. 1993. Report of the NOAA Panel on Contingent Evaluation. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Department of Commerce. Federal Register ...
Report of the NOAA panel on contingent valuation
K Arrow, R Solow - 1993 - cbe.csueastbay.edu... passive-use values in litigation arising from state and federal statutes designed to protect natural resources. Since Ohio v. ... capacity or regenerative power could be expected to report a Page 17. 16 ... the Nestucca oil spill limited their sample to households in ...
Stalled offshore
D COOK - 2005 - em.gov.bc.ca... In March of 1989, after the infamous Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Nestucca Barge spill ... Since 2001, BC has taken a number of steps directed at ending the federal moratorium. The first step was the commissioning of the Whitford Report in October 2001, a technology review ...
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The collision occurred approximately 3 kilometres off the coast of Washington, near Gray’s Harbor. Oil came ashore in discontinuous patches mainly in Canada on Vancouver Island - from near Victoria in the southeast to near Cape Scott in the north.
Time and Date of Incident
December 23, 1988 in the early morning.
Product/Quantity Spilled 1
An estimated 87,400 litres (5500 barrels) of Bunker C oil.
Incident overviews provide information on significant spills of oil or hazardous material in British Columbia. These overviews are not situation reports, but summaries about the incident location, scale, cause, response actions, and environmental impacts.
New, 2016, URL for BC Spill IncidentsReports indicated that as many as 56,000 seabirds were killed. And the clincher to the government's readiness, in protecting our shores environment, was this:
http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/spills-environmental-emergencies/spill-incidents
Also URL for all spills eg. Mount Polley too
http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/spills-environmental-emergencies/spill-incidents
There was no attempt made at open water recovery by Canadian or U.S. authorities. High seas and currents precluded the use of containment booms. An inter-agency response to the incident helped to reduce the damage caused by the spill. An outcome of the Nestucca oil spill — and the Exxon Valdez spill that occurred 3 months afterwards — was the development of Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Teams. These teams assist in the process of assessing and recommending cleanup/treatment and/or constraints for each shoreline unit affected and also determine end-points for cleanup. The internationally used and proven Incident Command System (ICS) was adopted by the Ministry of Environment — and by 1995 for the province — as the incident management organization for spills and other emergencies.
Earl MacLeod: It was something new; that's what made us so interested in what we were doing. They weren't paying us very much, but we did it because of out interest.
Five of the HS21's acquired a short time earlier from the U.S. Navy were assigned to Jericho and went into service quickly. In an era without airports,the ability to operate off water was vital. Coastal waters and lakes large enough to accommodate a flying boat with a landing speed of about 50 miles per hour could be used as a base. It was necessary, however, to haul the boat-hulled aircraft ashore periodically to ensure that the wooden hulls didn't become waterlogged. Performance could be drastically reduced if this were allowed to happen.
Harold Davenport: The operative aircraft at the base were Curtiss H2S21. flying boats that had been designed and built starting in 1916. The whole boat would be built [assembled] at the base. The hull was wood and the wings were substantially wood, the struts were wood, the spars were wood, the ribs wer wood, the hull was covered in wood. In other words the aircraft itself was built out of wood, out of fabric and out of steel - 800 pounds of round, high-tensile steel flying wires.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don McLaren: They were made of mahogany ..... mahogany planking on wood. We called them flying cigars.
Gordon Ballentine: I had my first airplane ride at Jericho Beach in an HS21.. Do you know what that is? That's a flying forest!
-------- The Curtis HS21. single engined flying boat was, from 1919 until 1929, the workhorse of Canadian Government. Air Force and commercial air services. Most aircraft of this type serving in British Columbia were former United States Navy machines that had either been turned over to the Canadian Government following World War I, or had been purchased by commercial concerns from the USN surplus. Based on the 1916 HSI, the HS21, was equipped with the 400-hp Liberty engine and had a wingspan of 74 feet.
Sometimes we come across images that are absolutely astounding!
If you're looking for more information, ask your local Public Librarian. 84 pages.....
Updated Link: 2022-07-27 2024-10-27
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The Jericho Beach Flying Boat Station 1920-1947.
Four separate veterans' organizations, 801 (Vancouver) Wing, Air Force Association of Canada; Air Crew Association (Vancouver Branch); Air Force Officers Association and the British Columbia Veterans Commemorative Association, have a formed an informal to erect an educational monument to record the little known story of the Jericho Beach Flying Boat Station, constructed in 1920 through the auspices of the Federal Air Board of the day. Jericho Beach was the first Canadian Air Force and, in 1924, the first Royal Canadian Air Force station in British Columbia, marking an important milestone in Air Force history. The station also has a rich history in pioneering aviation and in the development of British Columbia's remote coastal communities via the civil flight services provided to various Federal and Provincial government ministries. These services include patrolling, mapping, inspection and transportation, encompassing all areas of British Columbia's rugged coastal waterways during the 1920's and early 1930's. In the years leading up to the Second World War the station played a vital role in expanding British Columbia's coastal air defences and, with the establishment of Western Air Command, was responsible for all Royal Canadian Air Force activities in Western Canada. With the replacement of flying boats by long-range land-based aircraft at the end of the war and Jericho Beach Air Station closed in March 1947, the base was taken over by the Army as a military centre. In 1969 the military vacated the former Jericho Air base property when it was transferred to the City of Vancouver. In the ensuing years the property was developed as a park under the jurisdiction of the Vancouver Parks Board and the hangars, personnel quarters and most of the other facilities were removed and the station's role in history disappeared along with its structures. Another interesting element of the Jericho Beach story involves third-generation major British Columbia ship-builder, Clarence Wallace, builder of the Second World War "Victory" ships, who later became Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1950 - 1955), had four sons in the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1944 he presented the station with a sports field in the name of his four sons, all serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. His oldest son was a Hurricane pilot in the Battle of Britain and was lost in action over Europe a year later. Two sons were Spitfire pilots and both were shot down in 1944, one over Albania, the other over France just after D-Day, surviving the war as Prisoners of War. The presentation was marked by the dedication of a cairn and plaque, the event widely reported by the media. In the years following the transfer of the property the Wallace Field was incorporated into the extended sports field area and, sometime around 1980, the cairn was demolished and the plaque disappeared, another piece of history was erased. In the late 1990's and early 2000's, interest in the missing plaque was revived and through efforts of 801 Wing the plaque was unexpectedly discovered (2000), after narrowly escaping disposal as unwanted metal trash. It was turned over to 801 Wing after consultation with David Wallace, the last surviving son, subsequently leading to the current effort in conjunction with Second World War veterans to restore the Wallace Monument and plaque, also include plaques recognizing the historical importance of the Jericho Beach Seaplane station and the contribution of all military personnel who served there. This has now been achieved. This memorial was dedicated on Sunday, 19 October 2008.
