The Canadian Coast Guard and Port Metro Vancouver are working to clean up a bunker fuel spill in English Bay that occurred Wednesday afternoon.
The City of Vancouver issued a warning Thursday morning that the fuel is toxic and should not be touched. Several people have reported seeing an oily sheen on the water at the beach near the foot of Denman and Davie Streets.
UBC experts are available for media comment on the story.
Rashid Sumaila
UBC Fisheries Centre
Tel: 604.822.0224
Email: r.sumaila@fisheries.ubc.ca
Twitter: @DrRashidSumaila
Charles Menzies
Dept. of Anthropology
Email: charles.menzies@ubc.ca
Tel: 604.822.2240
Twitter: @charlesmenzies
Dana Miller
UBC Fisheries Centre
Email: d.miller@fisheries.ubc.ca
Tel: 604.341.6339
- Oil tanker and marine vessel registration and regulations
Ngaio Hotte
Resource Economist and Facilitator
Faculty of Forestry
Email: Ngaio.Hotte@ubc.ca