Case Studies from a Canadian Response Organization: 20 Years in Review

ECRC~SIMEC is one of four government certified response organizations (RO) providing marine spill response services to the shipping industry and oil handling facilities operating in Canada. ECRC's client membership includes over 2300 members in total, comprised of approximately 2200 vessel members and close to 100 oil handling facilities. With its vast geographic area of response, bordered by the Canadian Rockies to the west, the Great Lakes in the south, Hudson Bay in the north and Canada's exclusive economic zone in the east, ECRC~SIMEC has had the opportunity to respond to spills in a variety of environments. Response to oil spills in at sea, in rivers, lakes and estuaries have required the ability to adapt to challenging environments such as fast flowing waters, large tidal ranges, ice, and remote locations. In addition to ship source spills, ECRC~SIMEC has gained considerable experience responding to spills from pipelines and rail incidents, which have impacted waterways, most notably the spill following the Lac Mégantic derailment in 2013. The company, which recently marked its 20th year anniversary, has taken the opportunity to look back at incidents attended and lessons learned over the years and to reflect on the resulting changes to its response capability and capacity. This paper will provide an overview of roles and responsibilities of a certified response organization within the context of the Canadian marine spill response regime and provide a retrospective look at incidents attended over the last 20 years. Cases of particular interest will be highlighted with a focus on responses in winter conditions and to non-conventional oils. This paper will briefly outline the regulatory framework that governs ROs preparedness and response to ship source spills in Canada and focus on the lessons learned from key incidents over the history of the company's existence.

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Resource Flows and Economic Development

Resources and Infrastructures in the Maritime Economy, 1500-2000 ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9780973007329.003.0102 ◽

2002 ◽

pp. 62-62

Author(s):

Gordon Boyce

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Shipping Industry ◽

Fishing Rights ◽

Rural South ◽

Resource Flows ◽

The North ◽

History Of ◽

The North Sea ◽

Post War

This section explores the flow of resources and the economic development of the international shipping industry through analysis of three separate components. The first sub-section provides a thorough history of Danish maritime resources and infrastructures in relation to both shipping and fishing in the Danish coastal zone between 1500 and 2000, charting in particular the activity and economy of coastal dwelling communities. The second sub-section explores the resources and infrastructures in the maritime economy of rural south-west Scotland between 1750 and 1850, with particular emphasis on local economic revival and expansion efforts. It determines that entrepreneurship and expertise were vital to the success of a port, and intrinsically linked to local needs and culture. The final sub-section explores the fishing industry in relation to fishing rights in the postwar period. It uses the North Sea herring industry as a case study to demonstrate that post-war fishing developments centred on political exclusions and a shift from international to national fishing boundaries.

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UNIQUE LOGISTICS DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED DURING RESPONSE TO THE M/V SELENDANG AYU STRANDING AND BREAK UP

International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings ◽

10.7901/2169-3358-2008-1-1175 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2008 (1) ◽

pp. 1175-1183 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John J. Gallagher ◽

Nancy A. Gudonis

Keyword(s):

Ad Hoc ◽

Oil Spills ◽

Weather Conditions ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Response Effort ◽

Incident Command ◽

Response Organization ◽

Rugged Topography ◽

Local Populace ◽

Transport Problems

ABSTRACT The response to the MIV SELENDANG AYU stranding, breakup and oil spill in the Aleutian Islands presented unique logistics challenges for the response organization. Conducted over the best part of two years in an environment described as containing “some of the harshest weather conditions Alaska has to offer,” the response effort was heartily tested by both location and setting of the operation. The coincidental opening of the largest fishery in the U.S. nearby, weeks after the casualty, placed significant pressures on matters from the very inception. Added to this, the limited availability of traditional indigenous OSRO support as well as the extreme distances to sources of resource supply and receptors for recovered oil and associated wastes further encumbered the effort and posed extraordinary logistics and transport problems. With one important element of logistics, the rugged topography and lack ground access to impacted shorelines complicated the establishment of reliable and effective communications between incident command and response forces in the field presenting challenges of their own. A key to dealing effectively with the unique array of problems presented by the situation was the development and implementation of an overall logistics plan adapted to and workable under the unusual constraints posed. Lessons learned included the realization that there still exist areas in the world and/or prevailing conditions that, even with the advanced capabilities provided by current technology, ad-hoc augmentation, resourcefulness and ingenuity to make things work are still important assets. Because of the unavailability of major OSRO support, we were also obligated to create our own OSRO to be capable of fielding the forces necessary effect the major shoreline cleanup effort when the time came to do that. Most importantly, the results demonstrated that maritime oil spills can be effectively dealt with in even the most hostile and remote locations. A significant factor helping achieve these results was the outstanding cooperation between and support by all of the elements involved in the response including both the Federal and State on Scene Coordinators, the local populace and, most importantly, the Aleut stakeholders of the impacted areas.

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Marine Environmental Emergencies in the North Pacific Ocean: Lessons Learned from Recent Oil Spills

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology ◽

10.1007/s00244-017-0416-7 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 73 (1) ◽

pp. 1-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Un Hyuk Yim ◽

Jeffrey Short

Keyword(s):

Pacific Ocean ◽

North Pacific ◽

Oil Spills ◽

North Pacific Ocean ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

The North ◽

Marine Environmental ◽

The North Pacific

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Ras al Khaimah: further archaeological discoveries

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00150070 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 50 (200) ◽

pp. 216-222

Author(s):

Beatrice De Cardi

Keyword(s):

United Arab Emirates ◽

The State ◽

Focused Attention ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

History Of ◽

The City

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.

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Sequencing Analysis and Phylogenetic Tree of HPV Isolated from Breast Cancer Patients at Thi-Qar Province/Iraq

10.32792/utq/utjsci/vol7/2/10 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 37-40

Keyword(s):

Nucleotide Sequence ◽

Phylogenetic Tree ◽

Evolutionary Relationship ◽

Nucleotide Sequencing ◽

Sequencing Analysis ◽

Breast Cancer Patients ◽

The North ◽

Formalin Fixed Paraffin ◽

Formalin Fixed Paraffin Embedded ◽

History Of

Genetic variety examination has demonstrated fundamental to the understanding of the epidemiological and developmental history of Papillomavirus (HPV), for the development of accurate diagnostic tests and for efficient vaccine design. The HPV nucleotide diversity has been investigated widely among high-risk HPV types. To make the nucleotide sequence of HPV and do the virus database in Thi-Qar province, and compare sequences of our isolates with previously described isolates from around the world and then draw its phylogenetic tree, this study done. A total of 6 breast formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) of the female patients were included in the study, divided as 4 FFPE malignant tumor and 2 FFPE of benign tumor. The PCR technique was implemented to detect the presence of HPV in breast tissue, and the real-time PCR used to determinant HPV genotypes, then determined a complete nucleotide sequence of HPV of L1 capsid gene, and draw its phylogenetic tree. The nucleotide sequencing finding detects a number of substitution mutation (SNPs) in (L1) gene, which have not been designated before, were identified once in this study population, and revealed that the HPV16 strains have the evolutionary relationship with the South African race, while, the HPV33 and HPV6 showing the evolutionary association with the North American and East Asian race, respectively.

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Analysis of the ways of improvement of Ukraine – NATO cooperation on cybersecurity issues

Journal of Scientific Papers Social development & Security ◽

10.33445/sds.2020.10.2.2 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 11-15

Author(s):

Volodymyr Shypovskyi ◽

Volodymyr Cherneha ◽

Serhiy Marchenkov

Keyword(s):

Political Parties ◽

North Atlantic ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Cyber Warfare ◽

The North ◽

Collective Defense ◽

Cyber Space ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Modern Warfare ◽

E Mail

Recent events in Ukraine have shown that, along with the advancement of information technology, methods of conducting modern warfare are being enhanced. Cyberspace is deliberately used by the Russian Federation to commit cyber warfare against Ukraine. Therefore, in order to address their influence effectively, it is important not only successfully deal with its consequences but also to foresee the potential adversaryʼs actions by analyzing their previous operations and incorporating the lessons learned by other countries. Across the globe, including Ukraine, the issue of information security and cyberattacks has become exceedingly urgent. Everybody is aware of the ongoing attacks on information networks of various government agencies and energy firms, cyberattacks on e-mail networks of political parties and organizations around the world. Likewise, despite the steadily growing numbers, cyberattack cases against the individuals and private businesses are not reported as widely as they occur. As a result, The North Atlantic Alliance countries began tackling the issue of cyberthreats much earlier than Ukraine. Consequently, NATO and its allies rely on powerful and robust cyber defenses to ensure the Alliance's core tasks of collective defense. The article discusses methods and strategies for providing cyber defense in NATO member states and recommends ways to increase the level of protection in the state's cyber space, as part of Ukraineʼs national security and defense domain.

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North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR)

Bulletin for the Study of Religion ◽

10.1558/bsor.v44i2.27304 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 29-30

Author(s):

Matt Sheedy

Keyword(s):

North American ◽

American Association ◽

The North ◽

History Of

I interviewed Russell McCutcheon back in March 2015, about his new role as president of the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR), asking him about the history of the organization, goals for his tenure, and developments for NAASR’s upcoming conference in Atlanta in November 2015.

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