Tag: capping

Log booming at Clio Bay

Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly

Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly Chevron, the company operating the KM LNG project at Bish Cove and the Haisla Nation have proposed that marine clay from the Bish Cove construction site be used to cap more than 10,000 sunken and rotting logs in Clio Bay. Haisla Chief Counsellor Ellis Ross says he […]

Ward Cove

Clio Bay: Ward Cove, Alaska, benchmark for log remediation

Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly   Ward Cove, just eight kilometres west of Ketchikan, Alaska, was so polluted by effluent from pulp and saw mills and a fish plant, and filled with 16,000 sunken lots that it qualified for a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund cleanup. The Ward Cove project is now […]

Logs at Clio Bay

Clio Bay: What happens to sunken logs?

Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly The forest industry has been operating on the Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska for more than a century. Over that time, it is likely that millions of logs from booms and other operations have sunk to the bottom of bays, cove, estuaries and inlets along the […]

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Clio Bay: DFO declines invitation to appear before Kitimat Council

Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has declined an invitation from District of Kitimat Council to appear at a special meeting on Monday, September 30 to discuss the Clio Bay remediation project.  A representative of Chevron will be in the council chambers at the Kitimat branch of […]

Clio Bay: Chevron statement

Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly Here is the text of a statement Chevron spokesperson Gillian Robinson Riddell sent to Northwest Coast Energy News The Clio Bay Restoration Project proposed by Chevron, is planned to get underway sometime in early 2014. The proposal is fully supported by the Federal Department of Fisheries and […]

Clio Bay Editorial:Hire the experts. This is not the time to be learning on the job

Special report: Clio Bay cleanup: Controversial, complicated and costly Editorial: Hire the experts. This is not the time to be learning on the job. Everyone in the Kitimat and Kitamaat Village are facing a dilemma, a dilemma that should have been solved a year ago, when it was first known that the KM LNG project at […]

Clio Bay: Links and Documents

Links and documents relating to sunken logs and site remediation Note many, not all, external links are to pdf files. Canada DFO study of sunken log sites in Douglas Channel DFO Study Dissolved oxygen cycle in Minette Bay Impact of Wood debris in British Columbia estuaries Chris Picard's study of Clio and Eagle Bays as […]