September 20, 2016 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, September 19, 2016) NEW YORK — This is the third article in a series looking at why oil trains derail at higher rates than ethanol trains. More ethanol was moved by rail from 2010–2015 than oil, but oil trains derail at a higher rate and with...
September 16, 2016 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, September 16, 2016) GOGAMA — A CN Rail spokesperson says attempting to take more oil out of the waters near Gogama, Ont. will do more harm than good to the local environment. Full story: CBC News
September 16, 2016 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, September 16, 2016) NEW YORK — The DeSmog Blog examines the effects of “sloshing,” a phenomenon which happens when the liquid contents of incompletely filled rail tank cars start to move — or “slosh” — back and forth during transport, as a...
September 15, 2016 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: DeSmog Blog, September 14, 2016) WASHINGTON, D.C. — From 2010 to 2015, the total number of tank cars moving ethanol by rail was more than 1.98 million. That’s about 18 percent greater than the more than 1.68 million tank cars of crude oil shipped over...
September 14, 2016 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Television station WMAR, September 13, 2016) BALTIMORE, Md. — City residents protested the nine-month delay of a bill to mandate a study of the health and safety impacts of oil trains in Baltimore. Full story: www.abc2news.com
September 12, 2016 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Associated Press, September 9, 2016) FARGO, N.D. — Trial has been scheduled for 2018 in the lawsuit by an engineer who was at the helm of a BNSF train that derailed near Casselton in 2013. Full story: Bismarck Tribune
September 8, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: National Observer opinion column by Bruce Campbell, September 6, 2016) OTTAWA — At the end of July, Transport Minister Marc Garneau announced Canada would accelerate the phase-out of the class of rail tank cars that exploded in Lac-Mégantic in July 2013,...
September 7, 2016 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Sudbury Star, September 7, 2016) GOGAMA — Another round of environmental testing is being undertaken at the site of last year’s train derailment in Gogama after local residents raised concerns that it wasn’t done effectively the first time....
September 7, 2016 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Herald, September 7, 2016) EVERETT, Wash. — As the number of trains and the volume of volatile crude oil — particularly that from the Bakken region in North Dakota, Montana and Canada’s province of Saskatchewan — have increased as it moves across country...
September 7, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, September 6, 2016) LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — It’s a moment people in Lac-Mégantic, Que., have been waiting for since 2013: the fences have been removed around the downtown area where 47 people were killed in a train accident. The structures were...
