April 27, 2016 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Albany Times Union, April 26, 2016) ALBANY, N.Y. — State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has written to the head of the federal Department of Transportation urging officials to increase oil train safety measures. Full story: Albany Times Union
April 27, 2016 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 26, 2016) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Gov. Mark Dayton has appointed Alene Tchourumoff to serve as the state’s rail director, a role newly created to increase Minnesota’s oversight of the Bakken oil trains rumbling within a half-mile...
April 25, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Globe and Mail, April 25, 2016) OTTAWA — Transport Minister Marc Garneau will meet with residents Tuesday in Lac Mégantic, where 47 people died nearly three years ago after tanker cars filled with crude derailed and exploded in the center of town. Full story:...
April 14, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Toronto Star opinion column by Bruce Campbell, April 14, 2016) TORONTO — Transport Minister Marc Garneau said recently that rail safety is his number one priority. The federal budget pledged an extra $143 million over three years to, among other things,...
April 12, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, April 11, 2016) MONTREAL — About 400 people are contesting the amount of money they have received from the $460-million Lac-Megantic settlement fund for victims and creditors of the 2013 rail disaster, the man overseeing the cash distribution...
April 8, 2016 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 7, 2016) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The emergency management director for St. Paul held up a sheet of paper covered with a large black square. It was a redacted record he had requested to learn how railroad companies would respond to...
April 7, 2016 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBS Minnesota, April 1, 2016) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Minnesota railroad officials are strongly opposing a bill at the state legislature that toughens up rail safety laws, calling it unnecessary. Full story: CBS Minnesota
March 21, 2016 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Vice, March 18, 2016) OTTAWA — The goal of the recent train simulation, which used flammable liquid common in firefighter training rather than actual crude, was to improve emergency preparedness and public trust around the movement of crude and other...
March 21, 2016 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Globe and Mail, March 18, 2016) OTTAWA — As resource sector jobs dwindle across Alberta, a study from a Calgary-based transportation research institute suggests that rail should be considered as a means for getting bitumen from the oil sands to international...
March 18, 2016 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 2016) PHILADELPHIA — With last year’s crash in oil prices, less crude is moving by train, creating a surplus of idle rail cars that have become opportunistic vessels for some traders storing petroleum until prices...
