September 4, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Forum News Service, September 3, 2014) MOORHEAD, Minn. — Gov. Mark Dayton said Tuesday that railroads and oil companies “are going to have to take their share of financial responsibility” for the costs of keeping rail movement of oil from North Dakota’s oil...
September 4, 2014 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, September 3, 2014) CASPER, Wyo. — Recent heavy rain and congested rail lines have caused a Powder River Basin coal company to lower its production estimates for this year, and the company projects a slight drop in production in the next...
September 4, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Star Tribune, September 3, 2014) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — With the harvest just ahead, farmers and grain shippers are increasingly worried about where they’ll put millions of bushels of Minnesota-grown corn and soybeans because the rail system is far behind in...
September 3, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Moyers & Company, September 2, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — If you reside in the US, there’s around an eight percent chance that you live in an oil train’s blast zone. And there’s a fight going on at the state and federal levels, between monied interests and...
September 3, 2014 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, September 2, 2014) SEATTLE — Five people have been arrested after blocking railroad tracks at a BNSF Railway yard in Everett, Washington. The group Rising Tide Seattle erected a tripod of poles over the tracks with a woman perched on top....
September 2, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, August 30, 2014) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Friday passed legislation requiring railroad companies to tell emergency officials when crude oil trains will chug through the state. Full story: Reuters
September 2, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 30, 2014) ROANOKE, Va. — The same day a CSX train carrying almost 3 million gallons of crude oil derailed in downtown Lynchburg, federal investigators took a sample of oil at a rail transfer terminal 1,750 miles away in North...
September 2, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Houston Chronicle, September 1, 2014) HOUSTON, Texas — Six days a week, bumping through the scrub, oil trucks pull up to the rail stations at Muleshoe or Kermit, Dimmit or Roy, Whiteface, Seagraves or Wellman, any of the flyspeck boomtowns of the Permian...
September 2, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 30, 2014) RICHMOND, Va. — The frequency and volume of Bakken crude rail shipments are driven by oil production in North Dakota that is second only to Texas in the U.S. Production there rose from 81,000 barrels a day in 2006 to...
August 29, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, August 29, 2014) SAINT JOHN, New Brunswick — Irving Oil’s oil-by-rail terminal in Saint John, New Brunswick, has seen increasing air quality problems since it started up in 2012, undermining the company’s assurances to regulators the...
