(Source: CBC News, December 13, 2019)
SASKATOON, Sask. — Transport Canada says “only the most crash-resistant tank cars available” are allowed to haul crude oil on Canadian rail lines. But the Canadian Pacific Railway train that derailed on a remote patch of Saskatchewan farmland Monday, leaking an estimated 1.5 million liters of oil and igniting a large blaze, was pulling retrofitted steel tank cars that are not the thickest available.
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