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LYNN CANYON Ecology Centre is holding a ‘Pollution Solutions’ pester contest
for children ages 5-13. Sabrina Pontilio and her fellow grade four classmates at
Brooksbank school intend to enter submissions. The deadline for entries is
March 4 and more information can be obtained at 987-5922.

Spill response scrutinized

‘Training, jurisdiction hamper
coverage of hazardous spills

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

capabilities to quickly contain

hazardous goods spills along the Squamish Highway are
inadequate, police, fire, indusiry and highway agencies
concluded at a recent meeting in West Vancouver.

Major spill-response problems
identified at the mecting included
lack of money for training and the
purchase of required equipment,
jursidictional grey areas and
communication breakdowns.

Two sodium chlorate trucking
spills north of Horseshoe Bay late
last year focused the need for im-

REACHING

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

proved hazardous goods spill
response along the winding strip
of coastal highway.

According to West Vancouver

Fire Department Fire Chief Colin
Evans, who organized the
meeting, fire departments do not
technically have authority over
hazardous spills. Police depart-
ments do. But a fire department is
usually the first emergency agency
called in when chemicals spill.

And along the Squamish High-
way, it is the West Vancouver Fire
Department that is usually called
first.

See Highway page 3

Carol Crenna
on the 60s trend

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

id EWS photo N ait Lucente
IN OCTOBER, an accident along the Squamish Highway north of
Horseshoe Bay caused the release of hazardous sodium

chiorate.