The last Big House in the First Nation's territory along the B.C. coast was destroyed, and the community has been planning and fundraising to build a new one for decades.

More than 90,000 litres of diesel have yet to be accounted for after a group overseeing cleanup of a spill from a submerged tug on British Columbia's central coast said the tanks aboard the Nathan E. Stewart have been pumped out.

The Heiltsuk First Nation caught in the middle of a diesel spill near Bella Bella is sounding the alarm and calling the situation an "environment disaster."