February 27, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, February 26, 2019) NEW YORK — The government of Alberta, Canada, the heart of tar sands country, recently announced plans to get into the oil-by-rail business. Attempting to work around a lack of pipelines, the provincial government intends to...
February 25, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Drone DJ, February 22, 2019) In western Manitoba, Canada, a train carrying crude oil derailed early Saturday morning and created an oil spill. CN Rail has not yet disclosed how much oil had leaked from the 37-car-wreckage. So two friends took it upon...
February 22, 2019 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, February 21, 2019) MIAMI — The head of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has voiced his discomfort at the idea of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s recent production curtailments, designed to draw down a glut of trapped crude oil and decrease the...
February 22, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, February 21, 2019) ST. LAZARE, Man. — CN is still tallying up the amount of oil spilled in a train derailment on a ranch in western Manitoba. The Transportation Safety Board has said 37 of 110 railcars went off the tracks early Saturday near...
February 22, 2019 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News opinion column by Kyle Bakx, February 20, 2019) CALGARY — The Alberta government has once again intervened in the energy sector, signing contracts to spend $3.7 billion to ship more oil out of the province by rail, but industry experts say the plan...
February 21, 2019 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, February 20, 2019) CALGARY — The National Energy Board says crude-by-rail exports from Canada reached a record high in December. Canada exported nearly 354,000 barrels per day of oil, up seven per cent from November’s total of 330,400...
February 20, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, February 19, 2019) CALGARY — The Alberta government has signed contracts with Canadian National and Canadian Pacific to lease 4,400 rail cars to take oilsands crude to American and international markets. The first shipments of 20,000 barrels per day...
February 15, 2019 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, February 14, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board issued five safety recommendations Thursday following completion of its investigation of the Aug. 27, 2016, chlorine release...
February 15, 2019 | DOT, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, February 15, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Transportation Department on Thursday issued final rules requiring railroads to develop oil spill response plans and to disclose details of shipments to states and tribal governments after a series of...
February 14, 2019 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, February 12, 2019) NEW YORK — The only way to have a rail accident that is “eerily similar” to the Lac-Mégantic oil train disaster that killed 47 people and wiped out the small Quebec downtown is if a massive regulatory failure did not address...
