Council and partners work to permit oil spill simulant for response training

By JEREMY ROBIDA Council project manager Because evaluating the effectiveness of oil recovery efforts during trainings and drills can be difficult, the council has been working to find an appropriate oil simulant. A simulant would mimic oil on water and provide responders with a practice target and help to increase proficiency with response gear and tactics. In March, the council partnered with Cordova’s Oil Spill Recovery Institute and the…

Workshop helps citizens understand incident command system

Tim Robertson, council contractor, leads a discussion during the Seward workshop on how contingency plans relate to the Incident Command System. This fall, the council sponsored a series of community workshops to teach citizens how an oil spill response is organized and managed. The workshops in Homer, Whittier and Seward examined the power and decision making structure used during an emergency, and the role of federal, state, and local…

Board meeting date change

The September 2014 meeting of the council’s board of directors, originally scheduled to take place in Homer on September 18 and 19 has been moved to September 25-26, 2014 in Homer. This move was to accommodate the SeaRiver oil spill drill taking place the week prior. If you are planning to attend, please mark your calendar accordingly. Following are the dates for the remaining meetings in 2014: May 1-2, 2014: Valdez September 25-26, 2014:…

Gordon Scott tells his story of “Life at half a knot”

Volunteer Spotlight Gordon Scott On March 23, 1989, Prince William Sound fisherman Gordon Scott didn’t know a thing about oil spills, and if you had asked him that day, he probably wouldn’t have been too interested. “I was in Anchorage selling shrimp when the Exxon Valdez hit the rocks.” On Friday morning, March 24, he saw the headlines about the spill. He didn’t fish near Bligh Reef, so at first he wasn’t worried. On…

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