Irish Coast Guard

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Irish Coast Guard

• Local Authority oil spill Contingency Plans

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Coast Guard co-ordinates the response to marine
casualty incidents within the IrishExclusive
Economic ZoneThe zone is a resource of high
value in terms of ecological and socio economic
use
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Usual Phases of Response

• Search Rescue
• Coast Guard
• Dealing with the Casualty
• Coast Guard
• Counter Pollution at Sea
• Coast Guard
• Counter Pollution on Shore
• Local Authority under the direction
  co-ordination of the Irish Coast Guard

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Sea Pollution (Amendment) Act 1999Section 2- (3)

• Local Authorities have a statutory
  responsibility for providing oil spill
  contingency plans.
• Port, Harbours, oil facilities offshore
  installations have a statutory responsibility
  for providing oil spill contingency plans
• These plans must be submitted for approval to the
  Irish Coast Guard

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Why we need specific Plans

• Different response elements
• Many organisations
• Geographic area
• Overall scale
• Complexity
• duration

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Why we need specific plans

• Planning services
• Waste management
• Roads transport
• Procurement support
• Human resources

• Health and safety
• Financial services
• Communications internal external

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Key Components and Scope of a Contingency Plan

• STRATEGY Scope of the plan, Risks,
• proposed response strategy
• ACTIONS Mobilisation resources, operations and
  response
• DATA data on personnel, equipment and
  sensitivity/shoreline protection maps etc
• What area does it cover
• What is its geographical boundary
• What has to be protected
• How does it link with other plans

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What do we find in a plan

• Aim, objectives and scope
• Links to other plans
• Triggers, activation and alerting
• Roles and responsibilities
• Specific actions
• Liaison and communication
• Review and revision procedure
• Training and exercising

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Risk Assessment

• Historical
• Sources
• Oil Types
• Potential Size
• Scenarios

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Sensitivity Mapping

• Fisheries
• Mariculture
• Birds and other wildlife
• Wetlands
• Power Plants
• Amenity beaches
• Yachting/recreational areas
• Cultural/ archeological sites
• Shoreline protection strategy

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Initial Response Actions

• Assemble team
• Gather information
• Assess health and Safety risks
• Set up communications system
• Prepare Sitrep
• Assign Responsibilities
• Implement response
• Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 SRC

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What is a ShoreLine Response Centre

• Shoreline Response Centre provides
• Overall co-ordination of the shoreline operations
• Joint decision making
• Common purpose

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Shoreline Response Centre

• Overall co-ordination of the shoreline operations
• Determine the extent of the problem
• Agree a clean up strategy and priorities
• Initiate response
• Obtain resources
• Determine method of waste disposal
• Monitor progress
• Inform public, media and politicians

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Ship Casualty - Intervention - Pollution
Response

• Report accidents Why?
• Maritime casualty Why?
• Prevent , Mitigate or eliminate pollution
• Threat of grave and imminent danger of major
  harmful consequences through pollution to the
  coastline or related interests (Sea Pol Act 91)
• Place of Refuge Why?
• Best course of action for the purposes of
  protection of human life or the environment (SI
  573 2010)

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IRCG Incident ResponseImpact on Local
Authority/Port

•   All vessels in distress or needing assistance
• or sighting pollution are required to notify
• the nearest state.
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• Ship requests a place of refuge

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Onshore Oil Spill Response Shoreline clean up
carried out by Local Authoritiesunder the
direction of the IRCG
Shoreline Response Centre
MRCC
Planning Logistics Operations Finance
ONSCENE
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Beach Master implements the cleanup plans of
the SRC

• Directs the shoreline cleanup of a
• specified section of coastline

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Requires site management and planning
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De contamination
Equipment laydown
Food
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Not if it happens but when it happens Preparedne
ss Contingency Plans Training Exercise
Vs

• Environmental costs
• Economic costs
• Social costs
• Political costs