Threat reduced to B.C. coast as fuel barge safely reaches protected waters

BELLA BELLA — The coast guard says a loaded fuel barge that broke away from its tug off British Columbia’s central coast has reached safer waters and is now moored.
A tweet from the coast guard says the barge Zidell Marine 277 is at anchor, along with the tug that towed it to Norman Morison Bay at the northern tip of Campbell Island, on the Inside Passage.
The coast guard says booms have been placed around both vessels as a precaution, but no pollution has been observed.
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