Work underway to release fuel trapped in barge at Haida Gwaii

QUEEN CHARLOTTE — The Canadian Coast Guard says crews are working carefully to release gas that accumulated inside a barge carrying a fishing lodge that beached after it broke away from its anchorage at Haida Gwaii.
Westcoast Resorts’ Hippa barge came loose from its mooring Saturday night and drifted for several hours toward Skidegate Inlet near the village of Queen Charlotte.
Canadian Coast Guard Incident Commander Tim McCann says crews inspected the barge hull Tuesday and used air