Tag Archives: Deadly Oil Trains

By Dan Gundersen Minnesota Public Radio (3/30/15) North Dakota environmentalists want oil companies to reduce volatile gasses in Bakken crude. Regulators, however, say they’re taking a different tack that’s cheaper for the industry and still improves safety. The gasses remain … Continue reading →

Progressive Railroading (3/31/15) BNSF Railway Co. yesterday announced it has taken additional steps to improve crude-by-rail transportation on its network. In a letter to customers, BSNF said it would work with them to phase out use of the older-model DOT-111 tank cars … Continue reading →

The sociopathic nature of corporate behavior puts profits before the interests of society.  By Lorne Stockman Oil Change International (3/26/15)  The five major oil train derailments and explosions that occurred less than a month apart in the U.S. and Canada recently has refocused attention … Continue reading →

(Daily Call photo by Mark L. Taylor, 2015.)     By Mark L. Taylor The Daily Call (3/31/15) After decades of neglect and several delays, Burlington Northern Santa Fe crews are finally replacing segments of the rail bridge south of … Continue reading →

  (Map from Center for Biological Diversity)     By Mark L. Taylor The Daily Call (3/30/15) Justin Mikulka of DeSmogBlog provides an excellent overview of the growing oil-by-rail threat to communities and sensitive water and land resources across the … Continue reading →

(Daily Call photo by Mark L. Taylor, 2015. Open source and free to use with link to www.thedailycall.org ) Trains carrying crude oil in the United States have jumped from 10,840 carloads in 2009 to 493,127 in 2014.   By Lee … Continue reading →

(Fire from a crude oil train explosion is seen in Lac Megantic, July 6, 2013. Toronto Sun.) Disasters are raging with such force and regularity that firefighters have to give up. Welcome to the new reality. By David Dayen Salon … Continue reading →

New York Times, Editorial A CSX freight train ran off the rails last month in rural Mount Carbon, W.Va. One after another, exploding rail cars sent hellish fireballs hundreds of feet into the clear winter sky. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin … Continue reading →

Council of Canadians (3/10/15) ONTARIO - The Council of Canadians is calling on the federal government to immediately halt rail shipments of crude oil in Canada following a series of derailments and explosions. These incidents all involved new rail tank cars … Continue reading →

Burning fuel fills the sky with smoke after a train derailment near Gogama, Ont. on Saturday March 7, 2015. (Denise Brunet / MyNews) “If it had happened in the middle of town we wouldn’t be having a conversation right now … Continue reading →

  (Daily Call photo by Mark L. Taylor, 2015. Open  source and free use with link to www.thedailycall.org ) CARS - Citizens Acting for Rail Safety expresses outrage: The Thursday Galena IL train explosion makes four rail explosions in four … Continue reading →

( www.zerohedge.com )   By Patrick Rucker Reuters (3/6/15) WASHINGTON — The Obama administration considered national standards to control explosive gas in oil trains last year but rejected the move, deciding instead to leave new rules to North Dakota, where … Continue reading →

Rail transport of hazardous liquids is inherently dangerous. What more proof is required this year, looks like it could be a record breaker doesn’t it ? Right now, all the railroads can breath a sigh of relief that human death … Continue reading →

  By Edward McAllistar & Catherine Ngai  Reuters (3/5/15)   A BNSF Railway [BNISF.UL] train loaded with crude oil derailed and caught fire on Thursday afternoon in a rural area south of Galena, Illinois, according to local officials and the company. The incident … Continue reading →

      By Tony Dokoupil NBC News Monday’s fiery oil train crash in West Virginia was the latest in a string of explosive wrecks that have sparked fears about America’s surge in oil train traffic. And soon those trains may be rumbling through populated areas with … Continue reading →