General Resources
ECRC maintains staffed Response Centres at Corunna, Verchères (near Montreal), Quebec City, Sept-Iles, Dartmouth and St. John’s.
- The Corunna Response Centre is responsible for the Athabasca River, Lake Athabasca, Lake Winnipeg and the Canadian sections of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway West of Brockville.
- The Verchères and Quebec Response Centres handle the St. Lawrence Seaway and River east of Brockville, and James Bay, Hudson’s Bay and Ungava Bay.
- The Sept-Iles Response Centre is responsible for the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
- The Dartmouth Response Centre is responsible for the coastline of New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia as well as the Northumberland Strait and Cabot Strait shipping areas.
- The St. John’s Response Centre is responsible for the Holyrood and Come By Chance areas of Newfoundland a well as responding to offshore spills and those arriving on the shorelines of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Response Centres also have sub-depots where equipment can be stored close to possible response areas
The equipment inventories in each Response Centre include specialized containment boom, oil skimmers, boats of various sizes and functionality, storage barges from 50 to 2900 tonnes, communications equipment and all the support equipment needed to keep them operational. You can view examples of these tools on our Equipment page. Our own inventories are supplemented by equipment available from local contractors, many of whom we have trained to act as our dedicated spill responders.
ECRC also has access to management resources that are critical to good decision-making at the time of a spill. In addition to our own full time complement of 37 employees, we have access to a pool of consultants from across North America as well as the resources that have been developed in partnership with government authorities.
In addition to stockpiling equipment for immediate response to our client members’ requirements, ECRC can rent its equipment and provide supervision to our trained responders for spills by third parties. Special contracts are required at the time of requesting a response, and spill management is not included for non-member responses.
Key among the resources that ECRC has helped to develop is a library of sensitivity atlases. ECRC and Environment Canada have been using advanced geo-referencing computer software to catalogue the critical sensitivity information for the coastline and waterways within our Geographic Area of Response.
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