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Walkman prompts SeaBus evacuation
Bomb sniffing dog and robot deployed over cassette player BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Somewhere in Metro Vancouver there’s a hipster who’s probably feeling pretty sheepish right now. Metro Vancouver Transit Police and North Vancouver RCMP shut down the SeaBus and evacuated the North Vancouver SeaBus terminal for four hours during Tuesday’s evening rush hour for a suspicious package that turned out to be an old portable cassette player. A passenger on the Burrard Beaver noticed the suspicious looking object hidden under one of the seats on board and reported it to the SeaBus crew. They alerted transit police who quickly evacuated the terminal and called in their bomb sniffing dog and the RCMP’s explosives unit. The dogs did a sweep of the SeaBus terminals on both sides of Burrard Inlet while the RCMP’s explosives disposal robot went in for a closer look at the package. “Once the robot got close enough, with the video that’s available, they could see very clearly what the object was. It was determined to be a very old Walkman,” said Anne Drennan, transit police spokeswoman. “It was determined that it was inert and not a risk.” SeaBus service had to be suspended for close to four
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Annapolis cleared for Gambier sinking BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Canada’s federal court has given the OK for the Artificial Reef Society of B.C. to sink the decommissioned Royal Canadian Navy destroyer Annapolis in Howe Sound’s Halkett Bay. The ARSBC announced it plans to sink the ship in January, however the Save
Halkett Bay Marine Park Society, which is made up of Gambier Island homeowners opposed to the project, temporarily halted the sinking with a court injunction. After conducting their own testing, the group said the ship’s paint still contained tributyltin (TBT), an antifouling agent used to keep marine life from growing on ship hulls. The group
argued that the federal minister erred in granting a disposal at sea permit since TBTs were, they alleged, a banned substance. But their application, the judge ruled, was essentially too little, too late — too little chemical remaining on the hull for it to pose an environmental threat and too late to meet the 30-day statutory requirement for filing for a review of the
minister’s decision. The amount of TBT allegedly remaining on the hull would be .004 to .008 per cent of what would be expected in fresh anti-fouling paint, which would be an allowable amount under legislation in Canada, the U.S. and Australia, the judge found. As for timing, the See Application page 3
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