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Oil Spill Exercise
Oil Spill Exercise
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council will be undertaking one of its annual oil spill exercises at Clifton on Wednesday.
Under the Maritime Transport Act, HBRC is required to respond to oil spills that occur within the coastal marine area in Hawke’s Bay, and is required to run exercises every year.
Wednesday’s exercise will be a field test at Cape
Kidnappers, aimed at practising a shoreline clean-up and
site management. The scenario relates to a 2-3 km oil slick
on the beach at Cape Kidnappers.
The exercise will
include shoreline and environmental assessment and deploying
of environmental and wildlife teams. While staff will not be
deploying any booms or other water recovery gear, they will
be working on the beach and setting up a personnel and
equipment decontamination site. Maritime New Zealand and
Massey University’s Wildbase team will be supporting the
exercise
HBRC Regional On-Scene Commander Iain Maxwell says Wednesday’s exercise will focus on training staff and testing setting up for a potential oil spill in a critical environmental site that is difficult to access.
Exercise headquarters will be set up at the Clifton Marine Club.
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