(Source: Toronto Star, March 12, 2015)
TORONTO — Train derailments provide ideal conditions for an oil explosion, say chemists and engineers from across North America, calling into question rail’s ability to transport hydrocarbons safely and to prevent catastrophe in the event of an accident.
While the massive explosions that killed 47 and leveled Lac-Megantic, Que. in 2013 were fuelled by particularly volatile “light” crude oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota, two derailments in the last month in Gogoma, Ont., both involved “heavy” crude from Alberta’s tarsands, and exploded just the same.
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