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NCA, responsebillities, legal regulations, marine accidents
Rune Bergstrøm
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
Norwegian Coastal Administration –NCA
• Authority under The Ministry
for Transport and
Communications
• Main tasks:
– coastal management and
infrastructure planning
– maritime traffic safety and
monitoring,
– preparedness and response
against acute pollution (sea
and inland)
Geographical area of responsibility
• Territorial Norway– Inland
– Territorial waters to 12 nm
– Coastline >100000 km
• Norwegian EEZ
• Svalbard and Bear
Island
• Jan Mayen
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
LegislationsIn Norwegian Waters
(12nm)
• Pollution Control Act
• Svalbard Environmental
Protection Act
• Regulations concerning
notification of acute pollution or
danger of acute pollution
• Safe Sea Net Norway all ships
irrespective of size, carrying
dangerous or polluting cargo
(EU harbours)
• Regulations concerning
In Norwegian Economic
Zone (12-200 nm)
• Pollution act applies to Off -
shore oil industry and all
Norwegian ships
• IMO Convention relating to
Intervention on the High Sea in
cases of Oil Pollution, and
radioactive substances.,
prevent, mitigate end
eliminate.
• Marpol- regulations concerning
the prevention of pollution from
ships
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
At the source Prevent drift/spreading/sinking
Along drift trajectory
In littoral areas
On the beach
Priority: - Life, health, safety > - Environmental >
- Economical interest
After recovery of free-floating oil and the situation at sea is
stabilised.
Response strategy
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
NCA ‘s role – acute pollution
• NCA is the pollution control authority for all acute pollution (significant pollution that occurs suddenly and that is not permitted by the Pollution Control Act) except nuclear materials (Norwegian Radiation protection Authority)
• 24/7 duty officers, approx 1300 cases of acute or danger of acute pollution pr. year.
• Different roles: – Adviser to the polluter, or to local authorities
– Inspections and control (does the polluter handle the situation satisfactory?), Legal action
– Wholly or partly assume command of efforts to deal with the accident
NCA’s role with accidents including
radioactive materials• We will follow ships closely if we now they have
radioactive materials or nuclear machinery.
• If an accident should happen we, will work closely in
cooperation with Norwegian Joint Rescue Centre and the
Norwegian Radiation Authority.(Life and health first).
• Only take action after safe job analyzes have been
carried out.
• We have no special ships for situations which includes
dangerous levels of radiation.
• We have teems of special trained and equiped firefighters
(HAZMAT)
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
Preventive measures
• Traffic control
• Sea pilots
• Position tug vessels
according to ships with
HAZMAT cargo
• Regulated sailing
routes
• Navigation
improvments
• AIS, satellite
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
Cooperated national response
Coast Guard - Navy
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
National Institute of Nutrition
and Seafood Research
Norwegian Environment Agency
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
International agreements and
pollution response cooperation
• The Bonn Agreement
• The Copenhagen Agreement
• The NorBrit Agreement
• The Barents Sea Agreement
• EMSA – Assistance through MIC
• Arctic Council– EPPR WG
– Arctic oil spill agreement
• North Atlantic Coast Guard forum
• ICE (and MAR-ICE)
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
Wreck removal and oil Recovery
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
New priority after oil toxity
test. German coal based
oils from WWII are more
harmful to marine
organisms than other oils
Gateway to the arctic ocean
Environmental Risk
Resource groups included
in the analysis:
- Sea birds
- Sea mammals
- Fish
- The shoreline
Highest Environmental Risk
on the west coast of
Spitsbergen (Isfjorden and
around Bjørnøya )
throughout the year. This is
because of the fact that
these areas have most of
the traffic.Sea birds
summer
Sea- traffic in Sept. 2013
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
Satellite surveillance
Surveillance aircraft
Beechcraft King Air 350ER
• ut to 12 hours flying time
• surveillance (low alt) 1300 nm
• FLIR (incl laser)
• SLAR (20kw antenna)
• AIS (live datastream to shore)
• Downlink
• Drop Tube
• SAR direction finder
• Communication: Satcom,
MF/HF, Duplex, VHF/FM/AM
• Radiac
• HD Video/photo
NCA equipment
• 16 main equipment depots– 45 000 metres of oil boom,
– 140 oil recovery devices,
– boats, beach cleaning equipment etc..,
• 5 NCA Oil Recovery Vessels
• 4 Emergency Towing Vessels
• 39 Boom towing vessels
• 1 Surveillance Aircraft
• 11 Coast Guard Vessels with OR
• National and international agreements
Norwegian Coastal Administration, Department for Emergency Response
Thank you for your attention!
“working to keep our coast and waters among the safest and purest in the world”