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Weather hampers tug effort

The chief of a First Nation community says choppy weather has hindered efforts to deploy a larger boom to better contain a leak of diesel fuel from a sunken tugboat on British Columbia's central coast.

Heiltsuk Chief Marilyn Slett says a boom that was installed earlier became caught on a rock at low tide Thursday night and allowed an unknown amount of diesel to seep into open water.

An update from the Heiltsuk Nation also says a skimmer vessel reported seeing another fuel slick northeast of the original spill site.

The Nathan E. Stewart tug ran aground while pulling an empty fuel barge through Seaforth Channel, about 20 kilometres west of Bella Bella, shortly after midnight on Oct. 13.

Salvage crews have recovered more than 40 per cent of the 200,000 litres of fuel estimated to be in the vessel.



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