March 4, 2014 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Montreal Gazette, February 28, 2014. Editor’s note: Sûreté du Québec or SQ is commonly known as the Quebec Provincial Police.) MONTREAL — The July 6 derailment in Lac-Mégantic wasn’t the first time that Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway had...
March 3, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Albany Times-Union, March 1, 2014) ALBANY, N.Y. — The derailment of 13 tank cars carrying crude oil at the Selkirk rail yard Friday night involved no rollovers, no spills and no injuries, according to shipper CSX and state regulators. But that’s...
March 3, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, March 2, 2014) BUFFALO, N.Y. — Freight trains passing through New York are under greater scrutiny following accidents elsewhere involving the shipment of volatile crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken region. Full story:...
March 3, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Albany Times Union, February 28, 2014) ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo late Friday touted his “inspection blitz” this week of oil trains, a rail yard and a terminal at the Port of Albany by state and federal regulators. The governor said it...
March 3, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Oregonian, March 2, 2014) PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio is no stranger to complexity in the Byzantine ways of federal regulation. But he nearly lost it last week in a congressional hearing at which he directed a bureaucrat to stop...
March 3, 2014 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, March 3, 2014) OMAHA, Neb. — Investor Warren Buffett says it’s clear that railroad tank cars carrying crude oil need to be updated because oil from certain regions has the potential to be more dangerous than previously thought. Full...
March 3, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, March 3, 2014) NEW ORLEANS, La. — A U.S. emergency order to test oil shipped by rail highlights what many industry officials have long said is a flawed method for testing the volatility of types of oil that have been involved in several fiery...
February 28, 2014 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Star Tribune, February 28, 2014) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The brutal cold — not increased freight traffic — has been the primary cause of delays on the Northstar commuter line between Elk River and Minneapolis, a BNSF railroad spokesman said Thursday during...
February 28, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Calgary Herald, February 26, 2014) CALGARY, Alberta — Some tanker cars in Western Canada have been temporarily suspended from being used to ship oil in the wake of Tuesday’s U.S. rail safety ruling, the chief executive of Calgary-based terminal operator...
February 28, 2014 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: New York Times, February 27, 2014) ALBANY, N.Y. — On a clear December morning two years ago, a 600-foot oceangoing oil tanker called the Stena Primorsk left the Port of Albany on its maiden voyage down the Hudson River laden with 279,000 barrels of...
