Collection search - Headquarters records of the Ship-Source Oil Pollution Fund (SOPF) [textual records, sound recording]

This accession consists of files created by the Headquarters of the Ship-Source Oil Pollution Fund (SOPF). It includes records documenting the Fund's clean-up projects, incident reports, domestic and international involvements, the First Canadian Oil Spill Seminar, the Joint Department of Justice and SOPF Admiralty Seminar, amendments to the Canada Shipping Act, and correspondence from the Republic of Liberia.
6 Audio cassettes were recorded at 2 seminars organized in Ottawa in 1989 and 1990.
The lecturers covered topics related to the Civil Liability and Global Limitation of Liability an Overview of Pollution Act 1990, Importance of proper documentation; financial, insurance issues and the discussion on the fact that in Canada there was
no clear policy regulating responsibility of financial consequences of oil spills.