July 7, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Canadian Press, July 6, 2015) LAC MEGANTIC, Quebec — A church bell rang 47 times in Lac-Mégantic on Monday as locals gathered to honour the victims of a rail disaster two years ago that forever changed the Quebec town. Full story: Toronto...
July 6, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train, UP
(Source: Reuters, July 1, 2015) NEW YORK — Union Pacific Corp will impose a $1,200 per-car surcharge on oil shippers that move crude in older railcars, the company told customers this week, becoming at least the second U.S. railroad to charge extra amid widespread...
June 30, 2015 | BNSF, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: La Crosse Tribune, June 29, 2015) LA CROSSE, Wisc. — New documents show BNSF Railroad is hauling fewer crude oil trains through Minnesota and Wisconsin than it was last winter. Full story: www.marcellus.com
June 30, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, June 30, 2015) HOUSTON — Californians most exposed to the risks of oil train derailments or fires overwhelmingly live in poorer, minority neighborhoods, two environmental groups in the state said on Tuesday. Full story: Yahoo
June 29, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Detroit Lakes Forum opinion column by U.S. Senator Al Franken, June 27, 2015) DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Minnesotans have always known how important safe, reliable rail service is to our state’s economy. Farmers and businesses have come to depend upon rail as an...
June 29, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Press & Sun-Bulletin, June 27, 2015) BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — A gas storage proposal along Seneca Lake calls for trains — each loaded with pressurized and explosive cargoes of butane and propane — to cross daily over a bridge spanning Watkins Glen State Park....
June 26, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: McClatchy News Service, June 25, 2015) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Railroads may have found a new weapon in their fight to keep information about oil train shipments from the public: a federal rule that was supposed to increase transparency. Full story:...
June 25, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, June 11, 2015) OTTAWA — Shipments of petroleum-related products by rail could nearly triple in Western Canada and double in Eastern Canada over the next eight years. That’s the conclusion of the Canadian Energy Research Initiative, which has...
June 24, 2015 | Canada, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Transportation Safety Board of Canada press release, June 19, 2015) MONCTON, New Brunswick — In its investigation report (R14M0002) released today, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) determined that a wheel with an undetected defect broke,...
June 24, 2015 | Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Globe and Mail, June 22, 2015) TORONTO — Nearly two years after the Lac-Mégantic oil train explosion killed 47 people and leveled the small Quebec town, the federal Canadian government has laid new criminal charges. Six former employees of the Montreal, Maine...
