Environmental Emergency Management Program

Incident Overviews

Incident overviews provide information on significant spills of oil or hazardous material in British Columbia. These overviews are not situation reports, but summaries about the incident location, scale, cause, response actions, and environmental impacts. Click on the incident name below to view an incident overview.

Incidents

2007

• Burnaby Oil Spill, July 24, 2007

2006

• M/V Westwood Annette Freighter Oil Spill – Squamish, August 4, 2006
• M/V Queen of the North Ferry Sinking and Oil Spill – Gil Island. March 22, 2006
• CN Coal Train Derailment - Lytton, Fraser River, July 31, 2006

2005

• CN Train Derailment and Sodium Hydroxide Spill - Cheakamus River, August 5, 2005

Earlier

• Pembina Pipeline Oil Spill - Pine River, August 1, 2000
• M/V Nestucca Barge Oil Spill - Gray's Harbour, WA, December 22, 1988