April 9, 2015 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Toronto Star, April 2, 2015) MONTREAL— The families of the dozens of people killed in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic train crash have received a financial proposal that would see them split nearly $80 million to compensate for the death of their loved ones. Full...
April 9, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, April 1, 2015) CASPER, Wyo. — Following a spate of explosive accidents involving North Dakota crude, the state began requiring companies on Wednesday to remove certain liquids and gases from oil before it’s loaded onto rail cars — a...
April 8, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Star Tribune editorial, April 6, 2015) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Ideally, there would be no trains filled with volatile North Dakota crude oil rolling through the Twin Cities. But given the complexity of rerouting oil trains around population centers, as the...
April 8, 2015 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Seattle Times, April 7, 2015) SEATTLE — The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community on Tuesday went to federal court to block BNSF Railway from sending 100-car oil trains through reservation lands, claiming the company is violating an easement that sharply...
April 8, 2015 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmogBlog, April 7, 2015) NEW YORK — Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) has responded defensively to the oil-by-rail lawsuit filed by former BNSF locomotive engineer Bryan Thompson. BNSF — the top rail carrier of oil obtained via hydraulic fracturing...
April 8, 2015 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: USA Today, April 7, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board issued “urgent recommendations’’ Monday for retrofitting freight train tank cars in the wake of four oil-train derailments since mid-February, three of which resulted in...
April 6, 2015 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Herald, April 5, 2015) EVERETT, Wash. — Environmental activists are preparing to head out this month to perform a second annual tally of trains carrying crude oil and coal through Snohomish County. Full story: The Herald
April 6, 2015 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bellingham Herald, April 2, 2015) BELLINGHAM, Wash. — BNSF claims that Washington rail regulators were mostly wrong when they said the company failed to properly report more than a dozen hazardous materials spills. In an email newsletter Monday, the company...
April 6, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Omaha World-Herald, April 4, 2015) OMAHA, Neb. — BNSF Railway has again increased the number of oil tank cars moving through Nebraska, totaling as many as 30 trains a week in March. Full story: Omaha World-Herald
April 6, 2015 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Sioux City Journal, April 4, 2015) SIOUX CITY, S.D. — BNSF Railway has more than doubled the number of big oil trains it sends through Sioux City. Full story: Sioux City Journal
