UNITED KINGDOM MARINE POLLUTION CONTINGENCY PLANNING—A REVIEW OF THE LAST TWO YEARS

1987 ◽  
Vol 1987 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-169
Author(s):  
Michael L. Stacey
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Contingency Planning ◽  
Emergency Operations ◽  
Chemical Spills ◽  
Bulk Chemical ◽  
Made In

ABSTRACT A report presented two years ago at this Conference described United Kingdom marine pollution contingency planning and a number of changes that had been identified. Progress has been made in these areas and further areas for change have been identified. Responsibility for dealing with marine pollution has been centralized in a Marine Pollution Control Unit, and to this has now been added responsibility for Her Majesty's Coastguard as well as for marine casualties around the U.K., with authority vested in one post—Director, Marine Emergency Operations. Work on developing contingency plans for bulk chemical spills also has begun and some research effort has been redirected from oil spill problems to this area.

THE SEA EMPRESS INCIDENT: OVERVIEW AND RESPONSE AT SEA

1997 ◽  
Vol 1997 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Harris
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Crude Oil ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Aerial Surveillance ◽  
Oil Tanker

ABSTRACT The oil tanker Sea Empress spilled more than 72,000 tons (23 million U.S. gallons) of crude oil when she grounded at Milford Haven, United Kingdom, on February 15, 1996. The response at sea by the U.K. government through the Coastguard Agency's Marine Pollution Control Unit involved aerial surveillance, the spraying of dispersants from aircraft, and the recovery of several thousand tons of oil from the sea surface. This paper by the overall commander presents an overview of the incident and the response operation at sea.

Protection of Sensitive Coastal Areas in the United Kingdom: From Torrey Canyon to the New Millenium1

1999 ◽  
Vol 1999 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-163
Author(s):  
Robin Perry
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Coastal Protection ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Oil Storage ◽  
Environment Agency ◽  
Future Plans

ABSTRACT The tanker Torrey Canyon grounded in 1967 beginning the era of the major oil spill. The United Kingdom was unprepared for this event. Nevertheless, following the spill, much research was carried out, including methods for the protection of environmental and socio-economic sensitive areas. However, little was done to produce detailed protection plans for such sites. These can save hours of response time, as boom locations, priorities, layouts, deployment methods, equipment requirements, access and temporary oil storage arrangements will be specified. Yet in the United Kingdom, the Shoreline Response Centre (Command Centre) continued to decide these things after the spill had occurred, which was often too late. In 1990, a spill from the tanker Rosebay occurred in the English Channel, off the sensitive South Devon coast. Protection plans were non-existent. This gave an impetus to develop coastal protection planning, which the SW Region of the National Rivers Authority (NRA) commenced. In 1995, it was recommended that this should be extended throughout the United Kingdom to a common standard. Unfortunately, various factors delayed commencement of this work, which was jointly carried out in 1998 by the Environment Agency (EA), the successor to the NRA, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Marine Pollution Control Unit and the Northern Ireland Environment and Heritage Service. In the meantime, many unsatisfactory plans were produced for the upstream oil industry. The paper reviews this background and describes the new national coastal protection planning guidelines. It also includes completed examples, describes the testing and validation process and describes future plans.

UNITED KINGDOM—A REVIEW OF THE NEED TO MINIMISE OIL SPILLAGE IN MARINE CASUALTY SITUATIONS

1981 ◽  
Vol 1981 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-214
Author(s):  
Michael L. Stacey
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Port Authorities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Oil Spillage ◽  
Safe Working

ABSTRACT This paper briefly describes the recently formed Marine Pollution Control Unit for dealing with marine pollution around the United Kingdom and considers the need to minimise oil spillage in marine casualty situations by emergency lightening, and the need for safe working conditions provided by coastal havens and ports of refuge. Concern is expressed at the reluctance of coastal and port authorities to offer assistance to damaged ships.

scholarly journals THE BRAER INCIDENT: SHETLAND ISLANDS, JANUARY 1993

1995 ◽  
Vol 1995 (1) ◽  
pp. 813-819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Harris
Keyword(s):  
Crude Oil ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive Areas ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive ◽  
And Control ◽  
Environmental Importance

ABSTRACT On Tuesday, January 5, 1993, the tanker Braer laden with 84,700 metric tons of Norwegian Gullfaks crude oil drifted aground at Garths Ness, Shetland Islands. Over the next eight days, the vessel's total cargo of crude oil was spilled. The Marine Pollution Control Unit immediately activated the Marine Emergencies Information Room in London and deployed staff to Shetland. It was agreed with Shetland Islands Council to establish a joint response center at Sumburgh Airport to coordinate and control the shoreline cleanup. The incident affected an area of international environmental importance and also threatened the local economy. Because of the lightness of Gullfaks crude and the severe weather, the bulk of the oil dispersed naturally and very little came ashore. The land beyond the shoreline was polluted by airborne oil spray carried on the storm force winds. Aerial spraying of dispersant on oil on the sea took place on three days. Some environmentally sensitive areas were protected by booms and dams. Of the 39 sites considered at risk, only 9 beaches and other sites merited cleaning.

MARINE POLLUTION CONTINGENCY PLANNING—RECENT CHANGES IN UNITED KINGDOM ORGANIZATION

1985 ◽  
Vol 1985 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-91
Author(s):  
Michael L. Stacey
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Contingency Planning ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Related Response ◽  
The Uk

ABSTRACT The UK has recently carried out a major review of the oil pollution problem (Royal Commission Report No. 8) which has resulted in an authoritative assessment of the environmental impact of oil spills, a series of recommendations covering a wide variety of aspects of prevention and response, and government acceptance and the subsequent implementation of a number of these recommendations. This paper summarizes the essential elements of the new environmental assessment, discusses the pros and cons of the recommendations, and describes those which government has accepted. It then goes on to deal in detail with the implications of the government's acceptance of the various recommendations and records progress in their implementation. The areas it covers in detail include: A new national organization for the central integration of sea and shore response in a single unit: the Marine Pollution Control Unit (MPCU), responsible within central government to the Department of Transport New structures and procedures to facilitate interaction between central and local government Redirection of emphasis in the R&D field, in the provision of sea and shore related response equipment, and in contingency planning in order to redress imbalances formerly existing between sea and shore related response Further development of the safe havens policy to facilitate salvage and cargo transfer operations Greater emphasis within the MPCU on the detection of violations of discharge regulations and the collection of evidence Arrangements for closer association between government and the oil industry in relation to provision of response equipment, the development of mutually supportive contingency planning, and response arrangements

SPILL MODELING AS PART OF THE RESPONSE AND MONITORING STRATEGY AT THE SEA EMPRESS INCIDENT

1997 ◽  
Vol 1997 (1) ◽  
pp. 930-932
Author(s):  
Jan Rusin ◽  
Tim Lunel ◽  
Andrew Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Response Strategy ◽  
Monitoring Strategy ◽  
Dispersed Oil ◽  
South Wales

ABSTRACT On February 15, 1996, the Sea Empress went aground at Milford Haven off the Pembrokeshire coast of South Wales, Great Britain. Between February 15 and 21 some 72,000 tons of Forties blend crude oil were released into the marine environment. The model OSIS (oil spill information system) was developed jointly by AEA Technology and BMT Marine Information Systems. OSIS was successfully used by AEA Technology for the U.K. Coastguard Agency's Marine Pollution Control Unit (MPCU) as a response tool to predict the fate, trajectory, and likely beaching of oil, thus aiding in the decisions and optimizing response strategy. The MPCU has subsequently contracted AEA Technology to develop OSIS to predict the long-term fate of the dispersed oil and to identify areas of deposition following oil-sediment interaction.

REVIEW OF UNITED KINGDOM CONTINGENCY PLANNING AND RESOURCE CAPABILITY

1983 ◽  
Vol 1983 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-197
Author(s):  
R. Adm. Michael L. Stacey
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Control Unit ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Complementary Nature ◽  
Mechanical Recovery

ABSTRACT This paper reviews United Kingdom counter-pollution thinking over the past two years and with reference to the recently published Royal Commission Report on Environmental Pollution in respect of long and short-term environmental effects of oil pollution. It includes an update on present national plans, as well as the recent enhancement of the United Kingdom Marine Pollution Control Unit, and balance of resources between the use of dispersants and mechanical recovery. It assesses the complementary nature of tugboats and aircraft dispersant sprayers in the U.K. mix of government-maintained resources and describes the deployment of mechanical recovery devices. U. K. air spraying capabilities include a number of different types of aircraft, considerations of their alert availability and choices of main and secondary airfields, the provision of dispersants and logistic backup organisations, and maintenance programs for the aircraft and flying fitness assurance programs for pilots. Possible future developments, including airborne remote sensing, also are described.

United Kingdom marine pollution law

Marine Policy ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.A. Walder
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Marine Pollution
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