Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Dominic LeBlanc (Beauséjour, N.B.) announced that a contract, valued at $3.7 million, has been awarded to ABS Americas, Houston, TX, to provide inspection and certification services to the Canadian Coast Guard fleet. The full release is available online. Call 613-990-7537.
Liberal MP Darren Fisher (Dartmouth–Cole Harbour, N.S.) announced that the Nova Scotia Community College received a Coast Guard Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm BO 105 helicopter on April 16, 2018. The full release is available online. Call 613-990-7537.
Liberal MP Scott Simms (Coast of Bays-Central-Notre Dame, Nfld.) announced that a new Canadian Coast Guard Search and Rescue Lifeboat Station will be built in Twillingate, Nfld., to increase the Coast Guard’s search and rescue capacity on the northeast coast of Newfoundland. The area of Twillingate was selected to increase the Coast Guard’s maritime search and rescue capacity … Read more
Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Dominic LeBlanc (Beauséjour, N.B.) announced that a contract, valued at $15,106,400.00, has been awarded to Ardent Global LLC for the removal of bulk oil from the Manolis L shipwreck near Change Islands in Notre Dame Bay, NL. This operation will remove all recoverable oil in the wreck, and significantly mitigate … Read more
The Government of Canada has awarded a contract for the refurbishment of a Canadian Coast Guard facility in St. Anthony, NL. Made possible through Oceans Protection Plan funding, the $1.1 million contract, awarded to ENERCON builders of NL will transform a former Marine Communications and Traffic Services site into a Coast Guard search and rescue lifeboat … Read more
Julie Gascon, Assistant Commissioner of the Canadian Coast Guard’s Central and Arctic Region was joined by Rear Admiral Joanna Nunan, Commander, United States Coast Guard Ninth District to sign the updated Memorandum of Understanding between their agencies concerning Coast Guard icebreaking services in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway maritime transportation system. Gascon stated “Our … Read more
Liberal MP Scott Simms (Coast of Bays-Central-Notre Dame, Nfld.) announced that in the coming months the Canadian Coast Guard will be seeking proposals from qualified marine salvage companies for bulk oil removal from the wreck of the Manolis L. The freighter sank in January 1985 near Change Islands in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. The Request for Proposals anticipates … Read more
Liberal MP Churence Rogers (Bonavista-Burin-Trinity, Nfld.) announced that a new Canadian Coast Guard Search and Rescue Lifeboat Station will be built at Old Perlican to allow for better response to marine emergencies on the east coast of Newfoundland. The Bay de Verde Peninsula was selected based on identified gaps in the Coast Guard’s maritime search and rescue response … Read more
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Democratic Institutions Andy Fillmore (Halifax, N.S.) announced today that Atlantic Region will receive a new lifeboat, called the CCGS Pennant Bay. The vessels in this class are all named after bays in Canada and are built under the Federal Infrastucture Initative and the Fleet Renewal Plan. The CCGS Pennant Bay is expected to … Read more
The first training session under the Indigenous Community Response Training project wrapped up at the Canadian Coast Guard station in Bamfield, B.C. Nine members from seven northern First Nations in the province graduated from the Coastal Nations Search and Rescue course. The participants were on the water for four days of training, taking part in advanced … Read more
