October 20, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train, UP
(Source: Sacramento Bee, October 19, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Faced with public concern about the risks of crude oil shipments, the Union Pacific railroad last month boosted its rail inspection program on mountain passes in California and the West, dispatching...
October 20, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Environment & Energy Publishing, October 17, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last January’s deep freeze left some natural gas-fired power plants in the Northeast unable to secure fuel to run when they were needed most, triggering a rise in electricity...
October 20, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Columbus Dispatch, October 19, 2014) COLUMBUS, Ohio — To get a record harvest to market, America’s farmers need trains, a lot of them. A booming oil and gas industry also needs rail space for its tankers, something that wasn’t true less than a decade ago. The...
October 17, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Globe and Mail, October 16, 2014) TORONTO — A 911 dispatcher awakened Lac-Mégantic fire Chief Denis Lauzon from his sleep shortly after 1 a.m. on July 6, 2013, to tell him there was a house fire in the town of 6,000 people. But when the chief looked out his...
October 17, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Buffalo News, October 16, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Charles E. Schumer is pressing the federal government to stick to its proposed two-year phase-out of the most dangerous “oil train” cars despite industry pressure to extend the life of those rail cars by...
October 17, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: McClatchy News Service, October 16, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Information about rail shipments of crude oil should be kept secret because of potential threats from foreign terrorists and environmental extremists, two rail industry trade groups argued to...
October 16, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Contra Costa Times, October 15, 2014) BERKELEY, Calif. — A revised environmental report for a rail expansion project at a petroleum refinery on the Central California coast that could bring crude oil by trains through densely populated East Bay cities has...
October 16, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, October 16, 2014) SEATTLE, Wash. — While the majority of the oil moving by rail has been fracked light sweet crudes from places like the Bakken and Eagle Ford shale basins, the railroads are telling investors that to keep increasing profits they...
October 16, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train, STB
(Source: MPR News, October 14, 2014) ST. PAUL, Minn. — The railroad system is doing a poor job of serving industry in Minnesota, according to a letter sent by three top state politicians Monday. Gov. Mark Dayton along with U.S. Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar sent...
October 15, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Globe and Mail, October 9, 2014) TORONTO — As crude-by-rail shipments soar, insurance company American International Group Inc. (AIG) is offering rail companies a $1-billion (U.S.) cushion against catastrophic derailments. Full story: Globe and...
