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January 23, 1983

A HUGE slick of oil spilled from Burrard
Yarrows’' North Vancouver shipyard last
Tuesday..-swept: inte. —Whytecliff--Marina
Thursday, coating the 5

> ~tarthick black oi.

An inflatable boom was
hurriedly set up at
Fishermen's Cove Marina
to prevent boats moored
there from the same fate,
as a result of Whytecliff
Marina manager Douglas
Craig raising the alarm.

Craig is angry that no
warming was given that

UP TO MES HULL tn off, Whytectiff Marina assistant manager Doug
Cralg complains that ff he had had warning of the approach of the oil
spill chat occurred two days carlier preventative action could have

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0 boats moored there

the slick was heading his
way. If he had known in
advance, he says, a boom
could have been installed
at Whytecliff and saved
the marina from the slick
which left boats, buoys,
lines and all other
equipment in the water
covered in thick black

By CHRIS LLOYD
and NOEL WRIGHT _

bunker-C oil. .

Earlier in the week,
slicklicker boats were
involved in cleanup
operations at Siwash
Rock, off Stanley Park,
and several other areas of
the harbor.

Workers involved in
the cleanup blamed the
spill on negligence by
Burrard Yarrows
shipyard, while some

orth Van son charged in family murders:

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estimated that several
thousand gallons of the
fuel_had spilled -from a
ship in there for repairs.

-News publisher - Peter
Speck was confronted by
the boom being set up at
Fisherman’s Cove as he
headed in with his
sailboat Thursday
evening and estimated
that the boom was “at
least 500 feet long”.

The operation was
being carried out by
members of the Burrard
Clean Oil Spill

-”
an

FIVE CAPTURED IN
‘SWAT’ OPERATION

Cooperative and Speck
was told the oil had
gushed out of a ship as it
was being hoisted out of
the water Tuesday for
repairs at. Burrard
Y arrows.

Dave Alsop,  vice-
president finance § and
administration of Burrard
Yarrows, confirmed
Friday that a spill had
taken place at the North

Vancouver shipyard
January 18.
He said the freighter

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

prevented the desecration of the arca by the black fm which coven
everything the shorcline and all boat moored tn the marina.

charges

‘| Red Hot

laid

FIVE people are in
custody charged with
the firebombing of
North Vancouver's Red
Hot Video, a plot to
blow up the Terry Fox
icebreaker being built
at Burrard Yarrows
shipyard and several
other acts of political
and environmental
terrorism.

RCMP offieers trom North

Vancouver were among a
special SWAT style team
disguised ws deparinent of

highways) workers who

captured the theee men and

(wo women afl punpotnt on

the Squamish Hiphwy

thursday t _—
awe fee.

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SUNDAY
Suany and crisp

MONDAY
Cloudy with showers