ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS OF VESSEL-RELATED SPILLS TO SALISH SEA COMMUNITIES.
What would be the impacts of a hypothetical large oil spill occurring near Turn Point between San Juan County and the Gulf Islands? How would affected communities address these impact?
April 3-4, 2017 at Camp Orkila, Orcas Island
Health Effects Resources
Resources provided by San Juan County Public Health Officer, Dr. Frank James
- Select Summary of City of Vancouver Evidence Page
- Short- and long-term health impacts of marine and terrestrial oil spills
- Health Effects Oil Spills - November, 2014
- Air Quality Impacts from Simulated Oil Spills in Burrard Inlet & English Bay
Resources
- San Juan County Oil Spill Response Capacity Evaluation (.pdf, 20 Mg), 2015, Nuka Research and Planning
- On November 29, 2016, the Government of Canada granted approval for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, subject to 157 required conditions from the National Energy Board (NEB). OVERVIEW and DETAILS of conditions.
- City of Vancouver, BC evidence page on potential environmental, social and economic impacts of oils spills. Video of talk by Jennifer Mayberry
- Oil Spill Response Analysis for Tsleil-Waututh Nation; the City of Vancouver; and the Tsawout First Nation
- Video by City of Vancouver on the cost of an oils spill to the Vancouver "brand"
- Economic Impact of an Oil Spill, Whatcom Watch 2015, Lovel Pratt
- Multi-Year SpillMap card dispersal patterns: A project is a collaboration between Raincoast Conservation Foundation and Georgia Strait Alliance and US partner Friends of the San Juans.
- Salish Sea Oil Risk Mitigation Workshop, 2016 Washington State Department of Ecology
- New Wavier in response to the Bella Bella Spill
- A river that has the same legal status as a person. Whanganui River Claims Settlement Bill. The indigenous Whanganui Iwi have a saying: "I am the river and the river is me."
- Ganges and Yamuna rivers granted same legal rights as human beings.
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas