Oil spill clean-up ship hit sandbar en route to government news conference in Vancouv

Cliffy

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VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s largest oil spill response vessel got stuck on a sandbar en route to a federal news conference about strengthening Canada’s oil spill defences.
The shipping-industry-funded company in charge of the vessel confirmed it ran aground briefly on an uncharted sandbar off Sand Heads at the mouth of the Fraser River en route from its Esquimalt base to the Coal Harbour news conference. But it denied the ship had a “close quarters situation” with a B.C. ferry near Active Pass earlier Monday – as claimed by the Coast Guard’s marine communications union.


Oil spill clean-up ship hit sandbar en route to government news conference in Vancouver

Yup. it's safe to ship oil through these waters, eh. If we needed more proof, there it is, as clear as if it was a painting of the future.
 

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VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s largest oil spill response vessel got stuck on a sandbar en route to a federal news conference about strengthening Canada’s oil spill defences.
The shipping-industry-funded company in charge of the vessel confirmed it ran aground briefly on an uncharted sandbar off Sand Heads at the mouth of the Fraser River en route from its Esquimalt base to the Coal Harbour news conference. But it denied the ship had a “close quarters situation” with a B.C. ferry near Active Pass earlier Monday – as claimed by the Coast Guard’s marine communications union.


Oil spill clean-up ship hit sandbar en route to government news conference in Vancouver

Yup. it's safe to ship oil through these waters, eh. If we needed more proof, there it is, as clear as if it was a painting of the future.
Yup those tankers will be travelling up the Fraser . And was there any spill ? No .
 

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What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassins?

Not really relevant, but I love quoting Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now.
 

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What do you call it when the assassins accuse the assassins?

Not really relevant, but I love quoting Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now.

"You're neither... you're an errand boy."

"Pilots aren't allowed to write F*** on their airplanes... Why?... because they are told it is obscene!"
 

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So a ship that is supposed to CLEAN UP oil spills in the channel... couldn't make it through the channel.



 

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So a ship that is supposed to CLEAN UP oil spills in the channel... couldn't make it through the channel.



Nope . He was stuck on Sand Heads at the mouth of the Fraser River .
Lots of boats have sat out the tide there .