June 27, 2014 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, June 26, 2014) BILLINGS, Mont. — The dangers posed by a spike in oil shipments by rail extend beyond crude from the booming Bakken region of the Northern Plains and include oil produced elsewhere in the U.S. and Canada, U.S. safety officials...
June 27, 2014 | Headlines, NS, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, June 27, 2014) NEW YORK — Norfolk Southern Corp said it would require its customers to give the railroad company legal protection against damages caused by explosions or leakage of hazardous materials carried in older tank cars, The Wall Street...
June 26, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, June 16, 2014) QUEBEC — The Quebec government is adding its name to a list of creditors seeking money from the insolvent railway company at the heart of the Lac-Megantic train disaster. The government said Monday that it is seeking $409...
June 26, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Sacramento Bee, June 25, 2014) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One trainload of Bakken crude oil passed through Sacramento in the first two weeks of June, according to a report shared with the Bee by the California Office of Emergency Services. But agency spokesman...
June 26, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, June 25, 2014) BISMARCK, N.D. — Dozens of mile-long trains loaded with crude are leaving western North Dakota each week, with most shipments going through the state’s most populous county while en route to refineries across the...
June 26, 2014 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, June 25, 2014) BILLINGS, Mont. — Railroad records show more than a dozen volatile oil train shipments traverse Montana weekly en route to out-of-state refineries. The information was released Wednesday by state officials in response to a...
June 26, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Montreal Gazette, June 25, 2014) MONTREAL — The Canadian Transportation Agency has issued a certificate of fitness to Central Maine & Québec Railway Canada (CMQ), which is buying the assets of Montreal Maine and Atlantic. Full story: Montreal...
June 26, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Toronto Sun, June 26, 2014) OTTAWA — The new incarnation of the bankrupt railway at the centre of last summer’s tragedy at Lac-Megantic, Que., recently received the right to operate in Quebec, but the small town’s residents don’t care, city...
June 26, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: McClatchy News Service, June 24, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s largest haulers of crude oil by rail on Tuesday appeared to abandon their insistence that information about such shipments could not be shared publicly for security reasons. Meanwhile,...
June 25, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, June 24, 2014) NEW YORK — Coal miners and power companies are both suffering as railroads struggle to clear a backlog of coal stuck in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana after the harshest winter in over a decade. Full story: Yahoo...
