(Source: KUOW, January 19, 2021)
SEATTLE, Wash. — Even though an oil train derailed and burned for hours that day, government officials and oil-industry critics alike say the Puget Sound region got lucky on Dec. 22. No one was injured when the 108-car train derailed in the small town of Custer, north of Bellingham, but about one tanker car’s worth of crude oil, 29,000 gallons, was lost, either up in smoke or spilled on the ground.
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