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North Shore News

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spill investigated

Robert Ga!ster

News Reporter
roberr@nsnews.com

A mysterious weekend
oil spill in Burrard
Iniet covered a por-
tion of Stanley Park’s
shoreline.

Vhe source of the spill has
not been determined, bur an
IDVESTI_ANON INTO 1S ong

ne fram someone
n the harbor that
* said

‘¢ aast

Samples ‘have been
By last Senday morning a
€ of Stanley Park
between Brockton Point and
the Lions Gate Bridge was
deemed out of bounds for
birds and humans, alrhough
only one of the categories
could have been ex sd to
comply with the directive.

“The wildlife thar exists
on the beach and the birds
can be affected,” said Lucas.

“To what extent we won't
know fur a couple of days.

“There's no reports of
dead birds washing up.

“The birds feed on organ-
isms living along the beach
and they don't fike living in

ail,” said Lucas.

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“The birds feed
on organisms
living along the
beach and they
don’t like living
in oil.”
— Coast Guard officer
Doug Lucas

Lucas organized clean-up
crews TO
the site o1 1

He said most of the oil
was removed by Monday.
Narth Vancouver-based

Burrard © lean Operstions
led the clean-up ettorr.

Althou he doesn’t yet
have any hard figures, Lucas
said the cost of the cleanup is
being paid for by his dicpart-
ment antil a perpetrator is
found.

The bill will then be
passed along to the guilty
party,

As to the size of the spill,
Lucas was clear ir ’

Valdez spill which was 4
large spill,” he said with pur-
posefia) ambiguity.

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