Spill Log: NZ oil spill and incidents at home

By Curt Hart, Communications Manager, Spills ProgramA dry-cargo barge, St. Elias, aground five miles southwest of Anacortes, Wash., in Rosario Strait, Oct. 10, 2011. Local communities along New Zealand’s North Island are bracing today for the potential impacts of a 450,000 gallon oil spill along that nation’s North Island.The spill started October 5 after the Rena, a 775-foot Liberian-flagged