May 15, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bangor Daily News, May 15, 2014) AUGUSTA, Maine — Just as the state has revealed that crude oil shipments by rail have resumed along the state’s rail lines, Maine emergency officials say new federal rules about shipping hazardous materials such as crude by...
May 15, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, May 12, 2014) HOUSTON, Texas — After a spate of fiery derailments, the scramble to make North Dakota’s Bakken crude oil safer when it’s being transported on trains has focused on better tracks, slower speeds, and reinforced railcars that...
May 15, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, May 14, 2014) MONTREAL — The railway chairman who became the target of local anger in Lac-Megantic says he has no intention of discussing criminal charges filed against his company and three of its employees. Montreal, Maine & Atlantic...
May 14, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train, STB
(Source: Finance and Commerce, May 14, 2014) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Minnesota Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar are urging the Surface Transportation Board to use its authority to stop long rail delays in the upper Midwest. Full story: Finance and...
May 14, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 14, 2014) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — At the Delaware River wharf where Appalachian coal trains once unloaded their cargo, 108 rail tankers lined up Tuesday to deliver a new distant energy source – crude oil from North Dakota. Full...
May 14, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, May 13, 2014) MONTREAL — The Crown announced late Monday that the Montreal Maine and Atlantic Railway (MM&A) and three of its former employees — Jean Demaitre (manager of train operations), Richard Labrie (railway traffic controller) and...
May 13, 2014 | CSX, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: News & Advance, May 11, 2014) LYNCHBURG, Va. — The Lynchburg derailment highlights the dangers of transporting Bakken Shale Formation oil by rail in tanker cars that are easily breached and on routes that take the trains through major population areas....
May 13, 2014 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Albany Times Union, May 12, 2014) ALBANY, N.Y. — Canadian Pacific Railway will be fined $5,000 — the maximum under state law — after four tank cars carrying Bakken crude oil from North Dakota derailed at 4:30 a.m. Monday in the railroad’s Kenwood Rail...
May 13, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Seattle Times, May 12, 2014) SEATTLE, Wash. — Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced an emergency order requiring railroads to identify routes on which trains hauling more than 1 million gallons of Bakken crude are traveling, and to notify state...
May 13, 2014 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2014) NEW YORK — Most energy companies operating in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale haven’t provided safety regulators with the requested testing data on crude oil they ship by rail across the country, the U.S....
