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The Mizushima oil spill - a tragedy for Japan and a lesson for Canada / C.W. Nicol.En46-8/76-2E-PDF

"On the night of December 18, 1974, a huge oil tank in the Mizushima refinery on the Inland Sea of Japan developed an eight-metre rupture and lost millions of gallons of hot Bunker C oil. Environment Canada sent Mr. C. W. Nicol of Environmental Protection Service in Vancouver to observe the impact of the spill on the environment and the clean-up measures employed. The cost of the clean-up and compensations, still continuing in mid-1976, will be in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars. More than 200,000 persons took part in the clean-up process, and over 38,000 vessels and 300 aircraft. This report summarizes Mr. Nicol's observations on the environmental damage and the clean-up efforts resulting from this catastrophic spill"--Abstract, page i.

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Department/Agency
  • Canada. Environment Canada.
  • Canada. Environmental Protection Service.
  • Canada. Environmental Conservation Directorate.
TitleThe Mizushima oil spill - a tragedy for Japan and a lesson for Canada / C.W. Nicol.
Series title
  • Report ; report EPS-8-EC-76-2
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Issued also in French under title: Le déversement de Mizushima - tragédie pour le Japon, leçon pour le Canada.
  • Issued by: Environmental Conservation Directorate.
  • "Environmental Protection Service report series."
  • "October 1976."
  • Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada].
  • Includes abstract in French.
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : Environment Canada, Environmental Protection Service = Environnement Canada, Service de la protection de l'environnement, 1976.
  • ©1976
Author / Contributor
  • Nicol, C. W. (Clive W.), 1940- author.
Description1 online resource (iv, 26 pages) : maps.
Catalogue number
  • En46-8/76-2E-PDF
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