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Reference#2: Puget Sound Partnership Oil Spill Issues in Washington

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This organization has assisted in the production of several studies on Oil Spill Issues which affect Juan de Fuca Strait and the Salish Sea.

http://www.psp.wa.gov/oilspills.php

What is the Puget Sound Partnership doing in 2014 to address oil spill issues in Washington?

The 2009 Washington State Legislature directed the Puget Sound Partnership to provide independent advice and assessment of Washington State’s oil spill programs and make recommendations for any necessary improvements. In late summer 2010 the Partnership assembled a Cross-Partnership Oil Spill Work Group to help assist the Leadership Council carry out this responsibility.

The 2012 Action Agenda outlines the priorities identified by the Work Group in May 2011. Since then the Partnership has promoted activites that concentrate on:

  • vessel traffic risk assessments,
  • reduction of abandoned and derelict vessels, and
  • involvement of locals in oil spill practice drills and assessments of natural resources

USA Reference #1: Vessel Traffic Risk Assessment Synopsis. GWU

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This is the first in a series of Risk Assessment publications from US  sources that I will be highlighting here as they have great implications for the risk of oil spills on Metchosin shores:
VTRA 2010–SYNOPSIS OF RMM SCENARIO COMPARISON APPLIED TO CASE T: GW–KM-DP by George Washington University.  Dec 2013

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~dorpjr/VTRA/PSP/CASES/VTRA%202010%20Master%20Comparison%20-%20T%20-%20RMM.pdf

Dr. J.Rene van Doop and Dr. Jason R.W. Merrick developed a vessel traffic movement baseline based on 2010 data and used that to model predictions for the future given the following projected inceases per year in Tanker Traffic:

487 gateway Bulk Carriers
348 Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (Kinder Morgan)
348 Delta Port Carriers
67 Delta Port Container Ships +Bunkering Barges
1250= Total projected increase per year

VTRA