(Source: Globe and Mail, March 27, 2013)
TORONTO — A Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. train spilled more than 20,000 gallons of oil onto frozen ground in northwest Minnesota on Wednesday, at a time when the safety of transporting crude by rail is increasingly in the spotlight. After 14 cars of a 94-car train derailed near the town of Parkers Prairie, Minn., nearly the entire contents of one car drained out onto both sides of the tracks.
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