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En Nouvelle-Écosse, la semaine dernière, un camion-citerne plein d'huiles usées a fait un face-à-face avec un "pickup", déversant une partie de son chargement de 38,000 litres d'huiles usées dans la rivière West Barneys River. Les deux chauffeurs sont morts, mais ne semblent pas être les seules victimes.
Le déversement a été nettoyé, et aucun poisson ne semblait en souffrir jusqu'à ce qu'un pêcheur à la ligne trouve 30 alevins de saumons ou de truites à 1 kilomètre en aval du déversement quelques jours plus tard.
Le Ministère de l'Environnement de la Nouvelle-Écosse a enlevé 2,000 tonnes de terre contaminée et 181,000 litres d'eau de rivière contaminée.
Nos sympathies aux familles des chauffeurs, mais la rivière ne sera plus jamais la même.
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"N.S. fish kill claim investigated
Government officials are looking into a report that dead fish were found near the site of last week's fuel spill on West Barneys River, in northern Nova Scotia. Angler Steven Clapperton said he discovered 30 dead salmon or trout fingerlings about one kilometre downstream from the spill site on Saturday.
A tanker truck owned by Newalta Corp., an industrial waste management firm, collided with a pickup truck on Highway 104 last Wednesday, killing both drivers. Some of the 38,000 litres of used oil in the tanker spilled into the river nearby. Crews used excavators, containment booms and absorbent pads to try to clean up the fuel from the river and its banks.
Clapperton said samples of what he found are being turned over for toxicology testing and analysis. Environment Canada said no dead fish were observed during three site visits since the accident. The Department of Environment said the cleanup in the Barneys River area is between 85 and 90 per cent complete. About 2,000 tonnes of contaminated soil has been removed, along with 181,000 litres of contaminated river water."
Excerpts from article in CBC News here: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/08/26/ns-fish-fuel-barneys-river.html
Our thoughts go to the drivers' families, but the river will never be the same again.
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