Photo Gallery: B.C. spill response team runs exercises

The Western Canada Marine Response Corporation exercised off Vancouver Island last month.

Five vessels, including Canada’s largest oil response ship, the nearly 75-metre-long K.J. Gardner, were out on the waters between Moresby and Pender islands.

The practice is all the more important as more ships leave Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet after the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline and talk from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith about pushing for a pipeline across British Columbia’s north.

Here are some scenes from the training exercise.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 6, 2025.

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