(The following is a press release distributed by BNSF.)
FORT WORTH, Texas– The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) today honored 46 recipients of the company’s Annual Product Stewardship Award. This award recognizes shippers for their safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail and supports the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® Initiative.
The 46 award-winning companies that successfully implemented the ethics of Product Stewardship under Responsible Care® were recognized this morning during a special presentation at BNSF’s corporate headquarters in Fort Worth. Eight companies — Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc; BP Chemicals; Eka Chemicals, Inc.; Husky Energy; Kerr-McGee Chemical LLC; Nexen Chemicals; Olin Corporation, Chlor Alkali Division; and PPG Industries, Inc. — have won the honor each of the last six years.
The Product Stewardship Award is presented to shippers who successfully transported a minimum of 500 loaded tankcars of hazardous materials during the 2002 calendar year and who worked with their customers to ensure no non- accident releases (NARs) occurred during the entire transportation cycle. This is the sixth consecutive year that BNSF has given these awards.
The honorees are:
AGP Corn Processing, Inc
Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc
Andrews Petroleum, Inc
BASF Corporation
Bayer Corporation
Big West Oil, LLC
BP Chemicals, Inc
BP North America, Inc
CF Industries, Inc
ConocoPhillips Canada, Ltd
CYRO Industries
Dynegy Midstream Services, LP
Dyno Nobel, Inc
Eastman Chemical Company
Eka Chemicals, Inc
Farmland Industries, Inc
Frontier El Dorado Refining Company
Georgia Gulf
Honeywell International
Husky Energy
Kennecott Utah Copper
Kerr-McGee Chemical, LLC
KeySpan Energy Canada
Kinetic Resources (LPG)
Koch Industries
Koppers Incorporated
Marathon Ashland Petroleum
Minnesota Corn Processors
Nebraska Energy, LLC
Nexen Chemicals
Norfalco Sales, Inc
Occidental Chemical Corporation
Olin Corporation, Chlor Alkali Division
PCS Sales (USA), Inc
Pioneer Americas, LLC
PPG Industries, Inc
Rimbey Pipeline Co, Ltd
Rohm & Haas Company
Sinclair Oil Corporation
Solar Gas, Inc
Sterling Chemicals, Inc
Sunoco, Inc
Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd
Texaco Natural Gas Liquids, Inc
Texas Petrochemicals, LP
Wynnewood Refining Co
Through its subsidiary, The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, BNSF (NYSE: BNI – News) operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with 32,500 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions at www.bnsf.com . The railway is among the world’s top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, transports the mineral components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough coal to generate about 10 percent of the electricity produced in the United States.