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Deadly derailment won't stop oil on trains

2013-07-19 07:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: A fiery and fatal train derailment earlier this month in Quebec, near the Maine border, highlighted the danger of moving oil by rail, a practice that has grown exponentially as a result of the oil boom and will continue to expand, experts say. This year, more trains carrying crude will chug across North America than ever before - nearly 1,400 carloads a day. In 2009, there were just 31 carloads a day. U.S. and Canadian drillers are producing oil faster than new pipelines can be built. As a...

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