March 5, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Toronto Star, March 4, 2014) TORONTO — More and more oil, some of it highly flammable crude from North Dakota’s Bakken region, is trundling on rail lines through the heart of Toronto in aged tank cars widely recognized as substandard. Full story:...
March 5, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Oregonian, March 4, 2014) PORTLAND, Ore. — Developers see opportunity for oil trains to start unloading large volumes of crude from Canada and the United States in Portland. The Port of Portland is interested, too. But the port, which owns four...
March 5, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, March 4, 2014) MONTREAL — The mayor of a Quebec town devastated by a train disaster is scheduled to raise rail-safety concerns with senior U.S. transport officials and members of Congress next week in Washington, D.C. Full story:...
March 5, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, March 4, 2014) CALGARY, Alberta — Canada’s grain-supply boom is turning into a bust for farmers as record harvests and railroad logjams make sales almost impossible. Full story: Bloomberg
March 5, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, March 4, 2014) NEW YORK — Shipments of crude from the Bakken are shifting back to pipelines from trains as more regulations and narrower price spreads make rail less desirable. Full story: Bloomberg
March 5, 2014 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Bloomberg, March 5, 2014) NEW YORK — A push by Warren Buffett’s railroad to boost oil-shipment safety is meeting resistance from Hess Corp. and other companies that say the plan would mean a surge in costs and force them to scrap thousands of tank cars....
March 4, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: BringMeTheNews, March 3, 2014) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The glut of oil train shipments from Canada is not only causing delays for Northstar and Amtrak passenger trains – it may soon have an effect on Golden Valley-based General Mills’ Cheerios product, the...
March 4, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Contra Costa Times, March 3, 2014) RICHMOND, Calif. — Tight supplies and rising fuel prices portend a future of increased oil harvests from tough-to-reach North American fields, which will send more crude oil by rail car to Contra Costa County...
March 4, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, March 3, 2014) OLYMPIA, Wash. — State lawmakers at odds over how best to prepare for increasing oil trains traveling through Washington say they’re working to reach an agreement before the legislative session ends next week. Full...
March 4, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Democrat & Chronicle, March 4, 2014) ROCHESTER, N.Y. — State and federal authorities last week began inspecting facilities used to ship volatile crude oil by rail throughout New York. The sites include rail yards in Albany and Buffalo, the Port of...
