January 12, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: National Transportation Safety Board press release, January 11, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board issued four railroad related safety recommendations in concert with the agency’s publication of two railroad accident briefs...
January 12, 2018 | Headlines, NTSB, Oil Train
(Source: Forum News Service, January 11, 2018) HEIMDAL, N.D. — The National Transportation Safety Board has released its final accident report and safety recommendations nearly three years after a fiery oil tanker train crash in north-central North Dakota that spilled...
January 11, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, January 10, 2018) MONTREAL — After a marathon trial that began last September, a jury has now been asked to decide if three former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway employees are guilty of criminal negligence causing the deaths of 47 people...
January 11, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, January 11, 2018) MONTREAL — Justice Gaétan Dumas acknowledged the Crown had a flimsy case against former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway traffic controller Richard Labrie, 59, and ex-MMA operations manager Jean Demaître, 53. Along with...
January 10, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, January 5, 2018) HOUSTON — Canadian crude shipments to the United States by rail could rise more than 60 percent this year on demand by Gulf Coast refiners for the heavy crudes and the wide differential between Canadian grades and the U.S. benchmark....
January 10, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: National Post, January 9, 2018) SHERBROOKE, Quebec — The Lac-Megantic railway disaster that killed 47 people was an accident and resulted from a perfect storm of unforeseeable events, the lawyer representing one of the accused in the tragedy said in his...
January 10, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, January 9, 2018) SHERBROOKE, Quebec — Tom Harding, the locomotive engineer indicted for his role in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, didn’t cause the tragedy, his defense lawyer said Monday. Full story: CBC News
January 9, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, January 8, 2018) NEW YORK — A big winner from surging imports of energy products into Mexico from the United States is the rail industry, benefiting from weak pipeline systems beset by a lack of connectivity, limited capacity and rampant theft. Full...
January 9, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, January 9, 2018) SHERBROOKE, Quebec — Final arguments will end today at the jury trial of three men charged with criminal negligence in the Lac-Megantic rail disaster that killed 47 people. Tom Harding, Richard Labrie and Jean Demaitre have...
January 5, 2018 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, January 4, 2018) MONTREAL — Gaétan Bourassa, the lawyer for Jean Demaître, the former railway operations manager indicted for his role in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic train disaster, told jurors Thursday one of the Crown witnesses who testified against his...
