February 9, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, February 8, 2018) BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota’s Public Service Commission says state rail safety inspectors found nearly 2,700 defects to tracks and equipment last year. Full story: Bismarck Tribune
February 9, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Atlantic, February 5, 2018) NEW YORK — Fracking has created a wider variety of crude oils, but is one more destructive than another? There’s only one way to find out. If all goes well, a massive fireball of hydrocarbons will ignite in the New Mexico...
February 6, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Age, February 6, 2018) NEW YORK — Six former employees, including the chief executive of the defunct Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday in connection with the deadly derailment that killed 47 and...
January 30, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: La Crosse Tribune, January 30, 2018) LA CROSSE, Wisc. — La Crosse area lawmakers are again introducing rail safety legislation that failed to pass in 2016 after a series of high-profile derailments. Rep. Jill Billings and Sen. Jennifer Shilling, both...
January 30, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: UPI, January 30, 2018) With Canadian crude oil production up slightly, and given infrastructure limitations, federal data show oil exports by rail at a historic high. Data from Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) show the November 2017 average for exports by...
January 30, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Hill, January 29, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The governor of Washington on Monday rejected a permit that would allow North America’s largest oil-by-rail terminal to be built in the state. Full story: The Hill
January 29, 2018 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, January 26, 2018) CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Railway is asking crude-by-rail shippers to sign multi-year, take-or-pay contracts that guarantee minimum volumes before it will assign locomotives and crews to help move a backlog of oilsands crude...
January 29, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Railway Age column by Art Miller, January 26, 2018) NEW YORK — After nearly three months of emotional courtroom proceedings and nine days of jury deliberations, three former employees of Ed Burkhart’s now-defunct Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway were...
January 26, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Columbian, January 24, 2018) COLUMBIA, Wash. — On average, more than a million barrels of oil a week was shipped by rail into Washington during the fourth quarter of 2017, a slightly lower volume than the year’s previous three quarters, and the majority...
January 26, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Medicine Hat News opinion column by Collin Gallant, January 25, 2018) MEDICINE HAT, Alberta — The acquittal of three railway workers last week on charges of negligence causing 47 deaths in the Lac Mégantic tragedy may be contradictory on its surface. They...
