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CROIERG TRAILERS & EQUIPMENT CROIERG’s spill response trailers and equipment are strategically located at: -
Trailer access criteria is in the Members Area under Emergency Equipment then click "Access to Equipment."
Member’s please note that the equipment usage and accountability criteria are specific and clearly spelt out in CROIERG information in the Member’s Manual, which is available in the Member’s Area of this website The provision of the large, secure first-class storage area by the Shell Co of Australia Ltd at their Canberra Terminal enables us to store our six trailers and associated equipment under cover with 24-hour access. CROIERG appreciates the efforts of the host companies who look after our trailers at various locations and provide monthly checks to ensure they are operational NOTE: Some articles are in Adobe Acrobat format and require and Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have the reader download it from here  |
June 2009
COMMITTEE MEETING ON JUNE 18THThe CROIERG Committee will be meeting in Yass on Thursday June 18th Members with items for consideration should contact the Secretary Phone:- 0428 627 777 (02) 6226 1752 Fax (02) 6226 1643 Email: - eejoconn@bigpond.net.au Mail: PO Box 362 Yass NSW 2582 TRAILER LOCATIONS (Change in Albury-Wodonga Area)Members have been advised by email of the change in trailer location for the CROIERG Spill Response Trailer in the Albury-Wodonga area. The trailer is now located at: - Ron Finemore Transport P/L 186 Sangsters Road, Wodonga Victoria This is a 24-hour facility and the people at the gate have the criteria for member access to the trailer, which is located in the CROIERG secure container. Members have been advised of the new contact details. Anyone with any queries please contact the Secretary TRAINING IN SYDNEY WITH CROIERG ROLLOVER TANKER TRAINING UNITLINFOX Transport conducted an emergency exercise in Sydney on May 20th using the CROIERG Rollover Tanker Training Unit. The exercise was held with the co-operation of the NSW Fire Brigades who had several pumper crews, including their HAZMAT people, in attendance. Harry Elvin, Contract Manager for LINFOX, was delighted with the large number of fire crew (25) who attended and their professional approach to learning more about road tankers. CROIERG member Transpacific Industries P/L brought along some of their specialised product recovery vehicles for the day to demonstrate their response capabilities. CROIERG members ISS First Response, Mobil Oil Australia and Caltex Australia Petroleum also had representatives in attendance  Hole cutting training  NSW Fire Brigades at Training Session  NSWFB training with CROIERG Unit  Training in tanker technology CROIERG SPILL RESPONSE TRAILER No. 24 READY FOR DEPLOYMENT TO MELBOURNETrailer Unit No. 24 is ready for deployment and the final details will be presented to the CROIERG Committee at the meeting on June 18th It is proposed that this trailer be located in Melbourne at Derrimut (Laverton Road) As soon as all the details are finalised members will be notified and the trailer delivered. PICK-UP RUNS UNDER GAS TANKER IN FLORIDAMay 1, 2009 Charlotte Florida Traffic is still moving slowly on Interstate-75 near Punta Gorda, following a collision between a gas tanker truck and a pick-up truck.  Pickup under tanker Both lanes on the highway are now open to traffic, but cars were backed up about eight miles north of the accident to North Port. The 19-year old driver of the pick-up ran into the side of the tanker and was swept underneath it, according to a press release for the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office. The pick-up was dragged beneath the tanker for about 300 feet. No injuries were reported. The crash was forceful enough, however, to cause a small leak of diesel fuel that was cleaned by hazardous materials crews. Another tanker arrived at the scene to transfer 9,300 gallons of liquid propane. Source www.heraldtribune.com TANKER UNIT SNAPS ENTERING SERVICE STATION IN NEW ZEALAND11 May 2009. Gisborne New Zealand
A petrol tanker carrying 36,000 litres of fuel was stopped in
its tracks at the station's entrance yesterday in what has been
described as "unusual" and "lucky"
circumstances.
Source.www.gisborneherald.co.nz OPERATION TO PULL FUEL TANKER TRUCK FROM OCEAN FLOOR.May 4, 2009 Victoria CANADA -- Almost two years after a barge tipped 11 pieces of equipment into the waters of B.C.'s Robson Bight ecological reserve, an operation will start this month to recover a fully laden fuel truck and a container of hydraulic oil barrels. Guide wires connected to heavy weights and underwater robots will help guide metal casings over the two pieces of equipment sitting on the ocean floor to try to minimize any possible oil spills, said Bas Coppes, project manager for Mammoet Salvage B.V., based in the Netherlands. Coppes expects the oil will remain contained during the operation, but said the casings will protect against spills. ''Diesel is lighter than water, so in case there's a crack in the tank, the diesel will be contained in the box,'' he said. An underwater video, taken in December 2007, showed the tanker truck, which sank in 350 metres of water, is intact. Coppes said he'd be surprised if that has changed. Environmentalists and residents around the Alert Bay area are keeping their fingers crossed that no oil seeps out and that the threatened northern resident killer whales, which use Robson Bight for feeding and rubbing themselves on pebble beaches, stay away. Source www.canada.com BLAZING FUEL TANKER IN HIGHWAY CHAOS IN QUEENSLANDMay 14, 2009 Stanthorpe Queensland. JUST moments after an oil tanker passed Ballandean State School south of Stanthorpe yesterday it burst into flames - spilling oil across both lanes of the New England Highway Six fire service crews who arrived at the scene at 10.50am spent the next five hours extinguishing the flames and monitoring the scene, closing the busy stretch of highway. Police set out a 500m buffer around the accident and directed traffic to Fletcher Road until the highway reopened around 2.30pm. Despite oil gushing from the 26,000 litre tanker at five litres per second, the B-double's driver Fred Driscoll, who was unharmed, said there was only a slight chance it would explode. He said he first realised something was wrong at about 10.30am when Southern Downs Regional Council workers contacted him through via UHF radio, after they smelled the brakes burning when it drove past a council work site. "Just before I pulled over something went bang," he said. "There was heaps of smoke and it quickly caught on fire." Mr Driscoll said he and a passer-by attempted to put the fire out with six extinguishers attached to the truck, but when things escalated they called triple zero.  A Queensland Fire and Rescue Services (QFRS) spokeswoman said the blaze was quickly subdued, but kept relighting as oil began to leak on to the ground. "The fire had been contained to the rear trailer of the B-double and the prime mover and the front trailer were separated," the spokeswoman said. Senior Constable John Thompson of the Stanthorpe Police said it was believed the brakes caused the fire. He said the Environmental Protection Agency and council were also called in to help deal with the oil spill. Ballandean General Store owner Colin Maher said he first heard about the fire, which happened only two kilometres from his business, on truck radio. "The heat of the fire managed to put a hole in the tank itself - the tank was leaking and oil was running across the road," he said. "The oil tanker was waiting for another truck to off-load what little oil was left in the tank." A spokesman for the owners of the tanker, Days Fuel and Fertilizer in NSW, told the Daily News yesterday it was too early for comment. Source www. warwickdailynews.com.au DRIVERS FACE DELAYS AFTER TANKER SPILL ON ABERDEEN TO STONEHAVEN ROAD IN SCOTLANDMay 26, 2009 Aberdeen, Scotland Drivers were today warned to expect major delays on the A90 Aberdeen to Stonehaven road after a diesel spill. A 54-year-old man has been charged in connection with the diesel spill, which happened on the A90 Aberdeen to Stonehaven road.  Both north and south-bound stretches of the A90 Aberdeen to Stonehaven road will be reduced to one lane today with a contraflow 30mph system because a section will have to be resurfaced. Hundreds of drivers ground to a halt during rush hour as emergency services were scrambled to the scene of the diesel spill on the Aberdeen to Stonehaven road. The tanker – which had fallen on to its side – lost its load at the Bridge of Muchalls. Huge tailbacks built up within minutes around the scene of the accident at Cookney Road, Netherley, and the south-bound carriageway of the A90 remained closed until the early hours of today as a complex clean-up operation was carried out. Source www.bbc.co.uk CARTERET (New Jersey) GETS NEW FIRE TRUCK FOR $1 A YEARNOTE: -The CROIERG web news Editor is no relation to the fire chief mentioned in this news report May 1, 2009. Carteret. New Jersey. USA The borough's fire department is getting a refurbished foam fire truck for the bargain-basement price of $1 per year. A ceremony was held this week at the Carteret Firehouse on Roosevelt Avenue for the official donation from Kinder Morgan of the foam truck. According to Brian Wojton, director of operations for Kinder Morgan's Carteret facility on Lafayette Street, Kinder Morgan owns the fire truck and the borough's fire department will lease it for $1 per year. "The fire department will house it, they'll take care of it and they'll treat it as theirs," Wojton said. Fire Chief Brian O'Connor said the donated fire truck — which replaced a 1973 foam pumper — is a refurbished 1988 pumper that carries 1,000 gallons of universal gold foam, which can be used on both petroleum and alcohol fires. The diesel engine truck also pumps 1,250 gallons of water per minute, O'Connor said. "It's a special purpose apparatus for alcohol and petroleum spills, leaks and fires," O'Connor said.  Wojton said that Kinder Morgan purchased the truck from a broker and over the course of six months, refurbished the truck for about $100,000. "Safety is important to Carteret," Wojton said. "As part of our expansion over the years, we've worked out some commitments to provide some response equipment to help supplement their equipment." O'Connor said the new truck will help fire officials respond to emergencies in Carteret, a town with a heavy amount of industrialization. "Carteret is surrounded by a lot of petroleum and chemical facilities. We also have the daily transportation of tanker trucks, rail cars and pipes lines that also run through the borough," O'Connor said. "This new truck will allow us to immediately respond with the proper equipment to extinguish fires or limit vapor clouds in the event that there is a spill." O'Connor said the foam truck, which the fire department received in January, has already been put to good use. The truck spent 12 hours at the scene on March 9 of an overturned tanker truck that spilled about 2,000 gallons of methyl alcohol on a ramp linking Route 440 and Interstate 287 in Edison. Three days later, it responded to a report of a leak of 100 gallons of isopropyl acetate, a flammable liquid, from a Conrail tanker near Monroe Avenue in Carteret. "This truck is one of the items that the borough should have because of the amount of chemical industry in Carteret," Mayor Daniel Reiman said. "It's a benefit not only to the chemical companies in town but also to the community at large. "Believe it or not, most of the towns in the area do not have a pumper truck which can obviously provide a tremendous amount of pressure and foam for chemical-type spills and operations," Reiman said. The Carteret Fire Department now has three fire engines, a 93-foot ladder truck and the foam pumper, O'Connor said. Source. www.mycentral jersey.com OVERSIZE TRUCK IN INCIDENT WITH FUEL TANKER IN QUEENSLANDMay18, 2009 Nudgee Queensland POLICE expect the northbound lanes of the Gateway Motorway at Nudgee to remain closed until lunchtime as work continues to clear an oversized truck carrying a 90-tonne concrete beam. The beam was being transported under police escort to Brighton where work is under way on a new bridge.  About 3.30am, the vehicle was forced to brake heavily when another over-sized vehicle in front of it turned into a worksite. The abrupt stop damaged the truck's brake cable and almost caused a collision with a petrol tanker travelling behind. The tanker driver was able to avoid a crash but a utility was not so fortunate, clipping the larger vehicle.
The tanker was not ruptured and police praised the driver's
actions. The incident closed the northbound lanes of the Gateway while arrangements were made for a crane to remove the concrete beam and the truck.
Northbound traffic is being diverted off at the Toombul Road exit and
back onto the motorway at the Nudgee Road on-ramp.
The tanker was escorted to a service station a short distance up the road where its load was decanted. Police said the clean up was progressing well but it was unlikely the northbound lanes of the Gateway would reopen before midday. Traffic is being diverted off the Gateway at Toombul Road and then back on at the Nudgee Road on-ramp. Source www.news.com.au/couriermail TANKER CRASH SPARKS FUEL EMERGENCY IN WAMay 08, 2009 Narrogin West Aust AUTHORITIES in Narrogin, 190km south of Perth, have activated an emergency management response to deal with a major fuel spill.
Diesel is leaking from a fuel truck which collided another vehicle at the
intersection of Clayton Rd and Narrakine Rd, near the town's
hospital, at about 9.30am.
 Narrogin (WA) diesel spill Police said the roads were closed and fuel was leaking from the tanker, prompting the emergency response. Both drivers were injured in the crash. Source www.news.com CSB LAUNCHES REDESIGNED AGENCY WEBSITE AND RELEASES NEW VIDEOEditors Note: For the information of CROIERG Members here is an announcement from the US Chemical Safety Board on their new website. Really first class. Recommended! Washington, DC, USA May 26, 2009 The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today unveiled a redesigned website, www.csb.gov that includes imbedded flash videos, a photo gallery, and a new accident news feed. The redesigned home page features a newly released 14-minute video, "About the CSB," describing the agency’s investigations, recommendations, and outreach programs. The new video includes interviews with CSB Chairman John Bresland, CSB managers and staff, and outside stakeholders together with footage of chemical accidents, investigative activities, and hearings.  CSB new website The new website provides easier access to investigation information, including the ability to download high-resolution photos from CSB investigations, and an improved search capability. The CSB’s widely viewed safety videos and safety messages are embedded throughout the site. Chairman Bresland said, "The CSB strives to be a leader in the online communication of safety information and recommendations. The web site redesign reflects our ongoing commitment to effective outreach to businesses, workers, and communities who share our goal of preventing chemical accidents and saving lives." The new www.csb.gov homepage includes an improved news feed of recent chemical accidents throughout the country as well as direct access to the CSB’s most frequently viewed safety videos. "The CSB’s new website has been an extensive undertaking," said Public Affairs Specialist Hillary Cohen, who led the year-long redesign project. "Our objective is make access to vital safety information as easy as possible for thousands of stakeholders and web visitors." MASSIVE CLEAN-UP CONTINUES AFTER TANKER SPILL ON HIGHWAY 221S
May26, 2009 Rutherford County, Tennessee USA Source. www.wlos.com TWO LP-GAS TANKERS COLLIDE IN THE BAHAMASMay 14, 2009 Nassau. Bahamas Two liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) trucks collided on the road that leads to the Albany development in southwest New Providence yesterday, causing one of the large vehicles to overturn a few feet off the roadway. It was a busy scene around 6 a.m. as firefighters hosed down the two vehicles to prevent them from going up in flames. Initially, fire fighters were concerned that the highly flammable LPG, which is a mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a fuel in heating appliances and vehicles, could ignite. "This is LPG product and it is a dangerous product," said Assistant Superintendent Jeffrey Deleveaux, who heads the police Fire Services Division. "We cannot take it lightly. This is why we had two engines on standby while the LPG truck was being [placed] upright...But there was no leakage of fuel content and cranes were used to upright the tanker that was overturned." At the scene yesterday at least half a dozen officers cordoned off the area as a lone fireman hosed down the overturned vehicle. There was visible damage to the truck that was lying on its side with a shattered front windshield. Despite the damage, police reported that the drivers were not injured in the crash. Deleveaux said traffic flow in the area was not disrupted as officers were able to orderly divert cars around the wreckage. "It's a very wide road so on the shoulder of the road traffic is able to pass on the unpaved section at least about 100 feet away from the actual accident," he said. By mid-afternoon yesterday officials were able to clear the scene of the accident. Source www.thenassauguardian.com TWO PEOPLE DIE IN THURSDAY EVENING CRASH WITH TANKER TRUCK IN MISSISSIPPIMay 1, 2009 Meridian, Mississippi USA
Two people involved in a two-vehicle collision Thursday afternoon on Hwy.
45 South died at Meridian hospitals Thursday evening.
Lauderdale County Coroner Clayton Cobler said a woman passenger in the
Ford mini-van died at about 5:55 p.m. at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical
Center and a 21-year old male passenger was pronounced dead at Rush
Foundation Hospital minutes later. The third victim was listed in
critical condition at Rush Foundation Hospital.
 The crash between the mini-van and a northbound 18-wheeler tanker truck hauling gasoline occurred at Mitchum Bottom Road and Hwy. 45 South in southern Lauderdale County. The right side of the mini-van was severely damaged from the impact.
Paramedics from Metro Ambulance and emergency responders from Clarkdale
Volunteer Fire and Rescue worked feverishly to extricate, stabilize and
transport the injured to Meridian hospitals.
The driver of the big rig, listed as being from Hanceville, Ala., was
unhurt. The truck did suffer extensive damage to the front and had to be
towed from the scene.
Source. www.meridianstar.com CCTV 'CLUE TO OIL SLICK VANDALS' IN UK SPILLPolice are examining CCTV footage to establish who broke the seal on an oil container and released gallons of oil into Newry Canal. The oil was spilled at Win Business Park in Newry and has polluted a beauty spot on the canal near the towpath, endangering birds and fish. Two swans nesting on the water have been covered in thick oil.  "One of the swans is covered in oil from head to toe," said Sinn Féin councillor Charlie Casey. "The USPCA has been called in to monitor the situation. "As the swans are nesting and they have eggs, they are quite aggressive." Vandals spilled the oil on Thursday night. Police said a container outside business premises was tampered with and lubricant was released. "Police are liaising closely with other agencies (the Environment Agency and USPCA) and inquiries are continuing," a spokeswoman said. CLEAN-UPA clean-up operation at the site is ongoing. "There are ducks and other hens nearby and the area is popular for fishing," said Mr Casey. "Those involved in this type of serious anti-social vandalism care nothing about the harm and destruction they are causing to the local businesses, community and environment." The Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) is investigating the spill. "Statutory samples have been taken and booms have been deployed to contain the oil and a clean-up is under way. There are two oiled swans and the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA) have been made aware of this," a spokeswoman said Source www.bbc.co.uk Some recommended reading in the MEMBER’S AREA (Training Bulletins):
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