Canwest: Chevron had warned it couldn't clean up Canadian coastal oil spill

OTTAWA — Chevron Canada warned regulators five years ago it would be unable to clean up the vast majority of any big oil spill at a rig off the coast of Newfoundland that is poised to set a record for the deepest offshore oil well drilled in Canada.

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The unprecedented nature of the Lona O-55 project has raised concerns among environmentalists and industry observers about how Chevron would respond were the well to blow out, as it did in the Deepwater Horizon case.

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However, the report also concedes that, were a large spill to occur on the rough seas off Newfoundland, the company would be hard pressed to clean it up, even if response teams were outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment.

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The Chevron report estimates that only two to 12 per cent of an offshore spill could be retrieved under "typical wind and wave conditions."

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http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Chevron+warned+couldn+clean+Canadian+coastal+spill/3048813/story.html

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