If Kinder Morgan gets a new pipeline, Western Canada’s clean-up corporation may get a $200 million upgrade, likely halving response time to the North Shore.
A six-hour duration between spill and cleanup could be “catastrophic,” stated District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton when discussing the issue in 2013.
However, Western Canadian Marine Response Corp. would likely navigate from their proposed Vancouver Harbour base to Maplewood Flats Conservation Area in 30 minutes, according to WCMRC communications manager Michael Lowry.
A hurricane would still stifle a crew’s response, rendering their 89 kilometres of boom substantially less effective, he said.
The best response to a spill would be not to have one, contended environmentalist Sven Biggs, who stated British Columbians have been clear they don’t want to “live through the nightmare of an oil spill.”
