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Yar CAS Peas
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February 28, 1990) News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

FRIDAY’S SPILL of
an estimated 40.000
lites of Sunker oi! in-
to Vancouver harbor
fouled West Van-
couver’s Ambleside
beach and could resull.
in the deaths of hun-
dreds of birds on the
North Shore and
t(nroughout” Burrard
Iniet.

About a dozen youth
corps workers were dispat-
ched to the West Van-
couver beach over the
weekend to rescue oil-
soaked birds and mop up
bunker oil.
Ambleside beach was
covered with an oily sheen
from the spill. A rock jet-
ty, which took the brunt of
the oil contamination, was
scrubbed down by a crew
supphed with large absor-
bent pads.
Youth corps workers at
Ambleside picked up four
oil-soaked = scaups, two
dead ducks and spotted a
number of oiled birds just
off shcre.
The Vancouver Port
Corp, has since demanded
a $t-million bond from the
gtain carrier involved in
Friday’s spill) to cover
clean-up costs. As reported
in the Feb. 25 News, the
spill occurred after the
grain ship Rubin Lotus,
which was on its way from
North Vancouver's Saskat- 4. H ¢ wut
chewan Wheat Pool to SS PU Pt : A ie
Vancouver’s Pacific Eleva- , tie" : : — a jan ita eae . ;
tors, collided with a Polish YOUTH CORPS worker [nid Miller rescues ofl-soaked ducks found at Ambleside Beach last weekend Cabove and right). Huadreds of birds
fishing vessel. were coated with oil after Friday's major ail spill io Vancouver harbor. Margret Radford (etd lifts oil from the water with an absorbent pad,