(Source: News & Advance, May 11, 2014)
LYNCHBURG, Va. — The Lynchburg derailment highlights the dangers of transporting Bakken Shale Formation oil by rail in tanker cars that are easily breached and on routes that take the trains through major population areas. Had the three cars that plunged into the James tipped the other way and had more than just three breached, a large portion of downtown would have been in the blast zone. And let’s not even contemplate the likely loss of life.
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