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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Oil Spill Response Exercise Underway

The Trade and Convention Centre has been turned a command post as hundreds respond to a simulated oil spill in the Bay of Fundy. 

The Canadian Coastguard, the U.S. Coastguard and Shell oil are conducting a three-day pollution-response exercise. The scenario is that an oil tanker and a boat have collided outside the harbour. 

Joe LeClair of the nation's Coastguard tells CHSJ News they're conducting it here because Saint John is one of the major oil terminals for the country and they like to exercise where there's the highest level of risk.