August 19, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Freight Waves, August 17, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Markets in just the past few days have sent a strong signal that moving crude oil by rail may be past a point of no return. When crude oil by rail began roughly 10 years ago, it was somewhat stunning....
August 19, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, August 16, 2019) CALGARY — Ongoing pipeline project delays and growth in crude-by-rail capacity from Western Canada are leading some oilsands producers to consider spending billions of dollars to build diluent recovery units. Full story:...
August 7, 2019 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Flathead Beacon, August 7, 2019) WHITEFISH, Mont. — Charlie Abell has spent nearly all of his 80 years living along the shores of Whitefish Lake. From Abell’s living room, he can watch trains zip across the causeway at Mackinaw Bay, the very spot 30 years ago...
August 2, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Press release from the office of Senator Ron Wyden, August 1, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., yesterday introduced legislation that would address safety concerns regarding the transport of oil via railways and to better prepare and...
August 1, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Global News, July 31, 2019) CALGARY — After a brief slowdown earlier this year, trains are once again carrying skyrocketing amounts of oil across the country. According to data from the National Energy Board, more than 8.8 million barrels of crude were moved...
July 30, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, July 25, 2019) NEW YORK — The oil industry in North Dakota and Montana — home to the prolific Bakken Shale Formation — faces an “impossible choice.” That’s according to a new petition to federal regulators from the attorneys general of...
July 18, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Freight Waves, July 17, 2019) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — North Dakota filed a petition on the afternoon of July 17 asking the federal government to block the state of Washington from enforcing a law that would restrict crude oil-by-rail shipments that pass through...
July 9, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog story by Justin Mikulka, July 9, 2019) NEW YORK — As the risk of these oil trains became very apparent, I began investigating how the trains could be allowed to travel through communities like mine in Albany and started publishing my findings here...
July 8, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Ottawa Citizen opinion column by Bruce Campbell, July 4, 2019) OTTAWA — Six years ago, on July 6, 2013, at 1:14 a.m., a runaway train loaded with volatile oil derailed in the center of the small Québec town of Lac-Mégantic, its disgorged contents erupting in...
July 8, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, July 7, 2019) LAC-MEGANTIC — The sixth anniversary of the rail disaster in Lac-Megantic, Que., will be marked this weekend with events aimed at remembering those who were lost and recognizing how the community has grown since the tragedy....
