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Canadian First Nation cleans up latest fuel spill mess

Type
Literature
Publication
Zada, John. Canadian First Nation cleans up latest fuel spill mess. AlJazeera. 2016.
Year Published
2016
Organization
Al Jazeera
Description

On the morning of October 13, Tracy Robinson, a hunter and fisherwoman living in the Heiltsuk First Nation community of Bella Bella, British Columbia, was preparing to go out on to the ocean, when the news reached her: An American tugboat and oil barge transiting Canadian waters had driven into a reef in nearby Seaforth Channel. Although the 100-metre fuel barge it pushed was empty, the tug carried more than 200,000 litres of diesel and other industrial oils that were now leaking into the Pacific.