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Insight - Quebec train set too few brakes, with deadly result
2013-07-11 07:13:01| Railroads - Topix.net
The handbrake is the railroad industry's ultimate fail-safe mechanism. It is supposed to help avert disasters like the one that engulfed a Canadian town on Saturday, when a runaway train loaded with oil hurtled downhill, derailed and exploded, leaving 50 people dead or missing.
08.08: Deadly Diversions Book Group
2013-07-10 20:35:59| Powells Books Events Calendar
This month our mystery group meets to discuss A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters. Join us!
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Deadly derailment adds heat to Keystone XL, crude-by-rail debates
2013-07-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
E&E: The fatal weekend derailment of a 73-car oil train in Quebec is adding the heat of disaster politics to the volatile Keystone XL debate, as environmentalists expand their case against fossil-fuel infrastructure beyond pitting rail against pipelines and industry observers wonder if the continental boom in crude on the tracks will slow down in the wake of the incident. Canadian officials yesterday estimated that explosions triggered by the train's unmooring in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, killed at least...
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NPA Calls for Help Keeping Deadly Disease Out of Britain
2013-07-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - NPA has asked everyone in British agriculture to help keep a new pig disease out of Europe. Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus has been present in this country in a mild form for over 40 years. But new strains which have spread from China to the United States are wiping out whole generations of newly-born pigs — and there is no effective treatment.
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Jilin officials, executives punished over deadly fire, colliery blasts
2013-07-07 07:17:01| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
More than 100 Chinese officials and enterprise executives found to be responsible for two deadly workplace accidents were prosecuted, sacked, demoted or given disciplinary punishment, the State Council said Saturday.
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