The oil barge Irving Whale sank in 1970, 60km from the nearest land in 220 feet of water. It is now estimated to contain 3100 tonnes of Bunker C heavy fuel oil and 6800 liters of PCBs. The Canadian government proposes to lift the barge and transport it several hundred miles to a shipyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the summer of 1996. This claim will pay $1 if the sunken oil barge Irving Whale is successfully raised and transported to a shipyard, with no reported environmental damage caused directly by the salvage operation, by Dec 31, 1996. -see the Canadian Dept. of Environment Irving Whale web page (at http://www.ns.doe.ca/whale2/ )for detailed information. -see also the Greenpeace Letter to Environmental Groups (at http://www.web.apc.org/~nben/irvingw.htm )
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