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Rail Safety of Bay Area Oil Shipments Doubted
2014-03-26 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Last summer`s oil train accident in Quebec that killed 47 people has lawmakers and others in the Bay Area concerned that it could happen here as the volume of crude oil from fracking and other petroleum products arriving from North Dakota and Canada to local refineries surges. On Mondays 25th anniversary of the 1990 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, State Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) said he fears the response to major oil spill will far short. Some of the trains that coming in--the tanker trains...
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