Storms hamper fuel-spill cleanup

Officials say booms containing a fuel spill from a sunken tug off B.C.’s Central Coast have been replaced, but cleanup crews continue to face harsh weather as they try to work. A report on the downed Nathan E. Stewart says crews worked Saturday to replace sections of boom that broke apart amid three-metrehigh waves and gale-force winds Friday. It remains unclear how much fuel spilled, but the tug had 220,000 litres on-board when it ran aground and sank about 20 kilometres west of Bella Bella on Oct. 13, and less than half that amount has been recovered.