Spill Incidents

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Incident Overviews

Incident overviews provide information on significant spills of oil or hazardous material in British Columbia. These overviews are not situation reports, but summaries about the incident location, scale, cause, response actions, and environmental impacts.

DISCLAIMER: Information provided is based on reports received by Emergency Management B.C. Information provided is considered to be current at the time of posting, but is subject to change as new information becomes available.

Incident date Name Source Nearest
Community		 Spilled
Content
June 18, 
2018		 Silverdale Barge Incident Vessel Silverdale,
BC		 Unknown
May 24, 2018 Goldstream Motor Vehicle
Incident

Motor Vehicle
Incident

 Langford Possible 
Furnace Oil
May 9, 2018 Gas line struck in Pitt 
Meadows		 Gas Line Pitt Meadows Natural Gas
April 11, 
2018		 Fuel truck spill - Mile 543
Alaska Hwy		 Transport
Truck		 Watson Lake,
Yukon		 Fuel
April 9,
2018		 Sinking fishing vessel near
Prince Rupert 		 Vessel Prince Rupert Unknown
March 22, 
2018		 Hydrochloric Acid spill near 
Alberta border		 Tanker truck Tupper Hydrochloric
Acid
March 20,
2018		 Gas leak at Silver Star Resort Severed gas
line		 SilverStar 
Resort 		 Natural Gas
March 13, 
2018		 English Bay Oil Sheen Unconfirmed Vancouver Oil
February 24,
2018		 HMCS Calgary Fuel Spill HMCS 
Calgary		 Strait of 
Georgia		 Fuel
January 25,
2018		 Overturned Tanker Truck near
Grand Forks		 Tanker
Truck		 Grand Forks,
B.C.		 Fuel
January 22,
2018		 Ethanol Fire in Port Coquitlam
Rail Yard		 Tanker 
Truck		 Port 
Coquitlam, 
B.C.		 Ethanol
January 19,
2018		 Coal Train Derailment near
Hazelton		 Rail Hazelton,
B.C.		 Coal
December 4,
2017		 Tank Truck Jack-knife near
Fort St John		 Tanker
Truck		 Fort St. John Condensate
November
28, 2017		 Tractor Trailer Fire near Hope
(Hwy 5)		 Semi fire Hope, B.C. Corrosive
liquid
November
26, 2017		 POTENTIAL: Tug Jake 
Shearer SW of Bella Bella		 Fuel Barge Bella Bella,
B.C. 		 None at 
this time
November
23, 2017		 Hells Gate Train Derailment Train 
Engine		 Hells Gate,
B.C.		 Fuel
November
21, 2017		 South Okanagan Hazmat
Incident 		 Unknown Kaleden,
B.C.		 Caustic 
Substance
November
15, 2017		 Logging Truck Engine
Fluid Spill near Caycuse B.C.		 Logging 
truck		 Caycuse,
B.C.		 Fuel
October 24,
2017		 Ammonia Leak at
Chicken Processing
Facility 		 Facility  Coquitlam,
B.C. 		 Ammonia 
October 17,
2017		 Fernie Arena 
Ammonia Release		 Arena Fernie, B.C. Ammonia
October 12,
2017		 Mitchell Island 
Industrial Fire		 Industrial
Fire 		 Richmond,
B.C.		 Fire
Suppression
Water
October 8,
2017		 Caustic Liquid Spill 
near the AB-BC 
border		 Tanker
truck		 Dawson 
Creek, B.C.		 Caustic 
liquid
September
27,
2017		 Industrial Vehicle in
the Beatton River		 Pumper 
truck		 Pink
Mountain,
B.C.		 Hydraulic
fluid, 
engine 
fluids
August 31,
2017		 Vessel Fire near 
Gabriola Island		 Vessel  Gabriola,
B.C.		 Diesel
July 31, 2017

Langford Motor
Vehicle Incident

 Tanker
truck		 Langford,
B.C.		 Diesel
July 27, 2017

Northwest Fuels
Bell-Irving
fuel spill

 Tanker
truck		 Stewart,
B.C.		 Diesel
July 14, 2017 Langley Motor Vehicle
Incident 		 Fuel Tank Langley,
B.C. 		 Diesel
June 15, 2017 Fuel Tanker Incident 
Near Kennedy Lake		 Tanker
truck		 Ucluelet,
B.C.		 Jet A fuel
May 17, 2017 Enderby Fuel Truck
Spill		 Fuel Truck Enderby,
B.C.		 Diesel,
Gas
May 16, 2017 Sunken Tug in
Shuswap Lake		 Tug Boat Saint Ives,
B.C.		 Unknown
April 18, 2017 Nanaimo Curling Rink
Incident		 Refrigerator Nanaimo,
B.C.		 Ammonia
April 15, 2017 Kootenay Lake Ferry
Incident		 Kootenay
Balfour
Ferry		 Balfour, B.C. Gear oil
April 10, 2017 Selkirk Vessel Fire Vessel Fire Victoria, B.C. Unknown
April 7, 2017 Motor Vehicle 
Incident near Elkford		 Motor
Vehicle		 Elkford,
B.C.		 Diesel fuel
Mar. 29, 2017 Ross Lake Vehicle
Incident		 Motor 
Vehicle
Incident		 Hazelton,
B.C.		 Vehicle 
Fluids 
(<1 L)
Mar. 24, 2017 Fraser River Sheen Submerged
Vessel		 Mission,
B.C.		 Diesel fuel
Mar. 16, 2017 Hills Bros Mt Robson
Provincial Park 
Incident		 Motor
Vehicle
Incident		 Valemount,
B.C.		 Diesel fuel
Mar. 13, 2017 MVI in Glacier
National Park		 Motor
Vehicle
Incident		 Revelstoke,
B.C.		 Diesel fuel
Paint
Mar. 10, 2017 Diesel Spill south
of Port McNeill		 Fuel
Tank		 Kelsey Bay,
B.C.		 Diesel fuel
Mar. 5, 2017

Diesel Spill
near Echo Bay

Fuel
transfer
pump

Echo Bay,
B.C.

 Diesel fuel
Mar. 2, 2017 Clandestine Drug
Lab Waste Spill		 Drug Lab Rock Creek,
B.C.		 Drug Lab
Waste
Feb. 23, 2017

Pipeline Discharge
North of FSJ

 Pipeline Prophet River,
B.C.

Processed
Water
Emulsion
Feb. 17, 2017 RDKB Sewage Spill Sewage
Plant		 Trail, B.C. Effluent
Oct. 13, 2016 Seaforth Channel Tug Bella Bella,
B.C.		 Diesel fuel

All prior incidents can be found in our Past Spill Incidents page.