Do Transport Canada and the industry response organizations have the capacity to deal with large oil spills such as the Prestige incident? What kinds of resources are available?
The Canadian Coast Guard and response organizations have significant response resources strategically placed throughout the country. The Canadian regime is built on the principle of cascading resources. This means that the resources noted in Question 13 (response organizations, CCG and international) could be called upon in the event of such an incident. It should be remembered that the risk assessment and prediction models indicate that an incident the size of the Prestige (64,000 tonnes) may occur once every 2,000 years in Inner Placentia Bay.
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