January 24, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, January 23, 2018) MONTREAL — Five years after the train disaster in Lac-Megantic, the federal government is committing to building a new rail line that would bypass the town. Full story: CTV News
January 23, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, December 29, 2017) NEW YORK — The election of Donald Trump was a big win for the oil and rail industries. Shortly after the election, Edward Hamberger, CEO of the trade group the Association of American Railroads, addressed a conference in New...
January 23, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, January 22, 2018) MONTREAL — The former train engineer recently acquitted of criminal negligence in the Lac-Megantic railway disaster apologized Monday in a rare public statement since the 2013 tragedy that claimed the lives of dozens in the...
January 22, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, January 20, 2018) MONTREAL — The former railway executive in charge of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) is speaking out after the acquittal of three of his former employees charged with criminal negligence causing death in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic...
January 22, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, January 19, 2018) SHERBROOKE, Que. — Residents in Lac-Mégantic, Que., say they support the decision of the jury to acquit three former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway employees charged with criminal negligence causing 47 deaths in the...
January 22, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada press release, January 19, 2018) LAVAL — The Teamsters Union is relieved by the acquittal of three Montreal, Maine & Atlantic workers who were accused of criminal negligence causing death in the Lac-Mégantic derailment. The lengthy trial...
January 22, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: United Steelworkers press release, January 19, 2018) LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. — The United Steelworkers (USW) welcomes today’s jury’s acquittal of three workers charged in the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) train derailment in the heart of this...
January 22, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, January 19, 2018) SHERBROOKE, Que. — A teary-eyed Richard Labrie, one of the three men acquitted Friday in the Lac-Megantic rail disaster, paid tribute to the 47 people killed in 2013 and said he hopes the trial delivered the answers they and...
January 19, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, January 19, 2018) SHERBROOKE, Que. — Jurors will deliberate for a ninth consecutive day today at the trial of three men charged with criminal negligence causing death in the Lac-Megantic railway disaster. There was no news again from the 12...
January 18, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, December 21, 2017) NEW YORK — Nothing seems able to derail the rise in Canadian tar sands oil production. Low prices, canceled pipelines, climate realities, a major oil company announcing it will no longer develop heavy oils, divestment, and now...
