Woodward's Fuel Tanker aground Near Gjoa Haven

[midwingcrisis]

A fuel tanker carrying nine million litres of diesel fuel has run aground in the Northwest Passage, the Canadian Coast Guard confirmed Thursday.

The tanker, which is owned by Woodward's Oil, ran aground on a sandbar Wednesday southwest of the western Nunavut community of Gjoa Haven.

It was carrying diesel to resupply Gjoa Haven and other remote communities in the region. No diesel is believed to have spilled, coast guard officials told CBC News.

Transport Canada is working with the company to get the tanker floating again.

The coast guard says it is too early to tell when the ship will be able to move.



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Should be interesting.......might not be the right place here......9 million Litres though

[frozen solid]

Even more interesting is the cruise ship aground on an uncharted shoal Northeast of Kugluktuk...

[Siddley Hawker]

Which one of Woodward's tankers is it? They ran one up on a sand bank in Pang last month.

[McPhoo]

Might be time for the feds to put their money where their mouth is and spend some coin on charting our waters! A big spill isn't the kind of press we need if we are trying to convince the world that the Arctic Archipelago is ours... Do I recall that you can chart shallow water with an overflying airplane like a B200? That would be fast and at least get the shallow areas on a chart.