5 - Wednesday, November 27, 1985 - North Shore News

‘Oil slick a threat
to local waterfowl

SPILLED OIL oozing along West Vancouver “All we can do is make

foreshores is threatening local wild waterfowl sure we have the organiza-
with a rigid death. tion in place. The Wildlife

Rescue Association has been

The oil spill, which occur- informed,"’
ted sometime Saturday | By ROSS MEEX | The Canadian Wildlife

night, has already killed 20 Service was out on the water
birds, said assistant harbor “We're most concerned Monday afternoon. They
master Bill Image. with the birds now,” Phillips spotted 15 contaminated

Originating somewhere in said. ‘The oil gets in their birds that had had oi! on
Burrard tnlet, the spill teathers and they fose their their feathers, but were still
spread out with the tide insulation value. A bird able to fly and elude the
along the coast of West could casily die in this watchers.

Vancouver, Stanley Park weather.”
and English Bay. While a cause is being But this doesn’t necessary

Image suspects the spill sought, wildlife workers and spell relief for the birds,
came from a freighter in the volunteers are attempting to Phillips said. When they
harbor. His office has col- save birds disabled by the clean themselves, they ingest
lected samples from a_ oil. the oil and can be poisoned.

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These will be compared to
samples taken from the oil
slick in an attempt to deter-
mine where the spill origi-
nated.

Image said the oil was in-
termediate grade fuel oif —
used for fueling deep sea
ships -- but no evidence
points to any one ship at this
time.

While the volume of oil
spilled was small, it has left
a thin shine of oi! on the
water, said environmental
emergency officer Bill
Phillips from Environment
Canada. Spread by the
outflowing tide, the oil was
spotted as far away as Point
Atkinson by the lighthouse
attendant.

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NEWS photo fan Smith

AN OIL spill in Burrard Inlet over the weekend reached all the way to Point Atkinson.
Traces of the oil could be seen in the chilly waters at the foot of 25th Street in West Van-
couver, above.

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