August 31, 2016 | Canada, Headlines
(Source: CBC News, August 30, 2016) HUDSON BAY, Manitoba — Omnitrax shut down then reopened operations on the rail line from The Pas to Churchill after a fire considered “suspicious in nature” by RCMP damaged a locomotive in The Pas on Monday evening,...
August 2, 2016 | Canada, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, August 2, 2016) TORONTO — Bombardier’s rail division says Ontario’s GO Transit system will be getting 125 additional two-level commuter rail cars to be produced over a two-year period at its factory in Thunder Bay, Ont. Bombardier valued the...
August 1, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Toronto Star, July 29, 2016) TORONTO — Ottawa has done well in fast-tracking the retirement of older, less puncture-resistant, rail cars from the task of hauling crude oil. It’s one less worry for the thousands of Canadians who live near a busy rail line. But...
July 28, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Globalnews.ca, July 27, 2016) OTTAWA — On March 1, a rail car full of asphalt rolled away from the Co-op Refinery toward downtown Regina – uncontrolled – for about four kilometers. It crossed seven streets before coming to a stop. Full story:...
July 27, 2016 | Canada, Headlines
(Source: Editorial in the Montreal Gazette, July 26, 2016) MONTREAL — Canada is putting an early stop to the transport of crude oil by older, less crash-resistant rail tankers — the kind involved in the Lac-Mégantic disaster three years ago. The move is welcome, but...
July 27, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, July 26, 2016) MONTREAL — Come November, oil transported in Canada by rail will be carried in cars that are billed as sturdier and safer than their predecessors. Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau announced Monday that the DOT-111 cars, which...
July 26, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, July 25, 2016) MONTREAL — Starting in November, tank cars like those involved in the deadly rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Que. will no longer be allowed to transport oil in Canada, Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau says. Full story:...
July 14, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Opinion column by Bruce Campbell in the National Observer, July 12, 2016) LAC-MEGANTIC — Like millions of other people, I watched in horror what happened three years ago here in Lac-Mégantic. I suspected regulatory breakdown was responsible, and I was...
July 12, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, July 10, 2016) LAC-MEGANTIC — A coalition of citizens and organizations in Lac-Mégantic are saying they no longer trust Marc Garneau, the federal minister of Transport, and are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to intervene to speed up...
July 7, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, July 6, 2016) LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — A runaway oil train brought death and destruction to this tiny community in Quebec, killing 47 people and destroying dozens of buildings. Three years later, trains still roll through downtown, just feet...
