Environmental Response

Our National Response Team

The National Response Team is comprised of Canadian Coast Guard Environmental Response personnel located throughout Canada who are knowledgeable and trained to monitor, manage or assist in responses to incidents at the Regional, National or International level.

The Canadian Coast Guard recognizes that the rapid cascading of equipment and personnel for domestic and international incidents, pollution or otherwise, is critical to the protection of the marine environment and in the case of national emergencies, the safety and well being of Canadians.

A minimum cadre of expertise is in place across the country and may be brought together, along with material resources, to:

• Augment the monitoring or response operations of a marine pollution incident;
• Enhance private sector response operations;
• Provide international assistance to a marine pollution incident.

The National Response Team concept of operations provides the framework for a coordinated national response to a marine pollution incident or natural or manmade disaster through the cascading of human and material resources from all Canadian Coast Guard regions. This concept applies when the Canadian Coast Guard serves as the On Scene Commander, Federal Monitoring Officer or resource agency to another Government department.

Regional Environmental Response Websites

• Newfoundland & Labrador
• Maritimes
• Quebec
• Central & Arctic
• Pacific