The Clean Arctic Alliance created an informative infographic to illustrate the risks and challenges that Arctic oil spill response entail, highlighting how severe impacts on wildlife and local communities an oil spill would cause in this fragile environment.
Oil spills from ships in the Arctic are nearly impossible to respond to and clean up due to the following reasons
- oil is difficult to remove from ice and snow
- cold temperatures and poor visibility
- remoteness, lack of infrastructure and equipment
- inadequate storage and disposal facilities
- challenging communications
- lack of community response plans and trained responders