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Shipping crude oil by rail: New front in tar sands wars
2013-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: On New Year's Eve 2009, a train with 104 tank cars of light crude oil traveled 1,123 miles from North Dakota's Bakken oil fields to a terminal in Stroud, Oklahoma, and opened a new front in the war over development of Canada's tar sands. It didn't seem that way at the time. EOG Resources, the company that owned the oil, simply needed a way to get its crude out of North Dakota, Andrew Burton/Getty Images Tanker cars at a depot in North Dakota, where railroads now move 600,000 barrels of oil a day...
Today's oil prices slip as crude inventories rise
2013-11-12 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Brent crude prices decreased today, on speculation of a huge increase in US oil inventories, which oil investors fear will lead to oversupply and a drop in demand.
Crude Oil Train Derails and Explodes in Worst US Accident of Its Kind
2013-11-11 00:38:13| Real Estate - Topix.net
A tanker train that derailed and caught fire in western Alabama outside Aliceville on November 8 A train carrying 2.7 million gallons of crude oil derailed in rural Alabama early Friday in a fiery explosion that green groups say illustrates the danger of fossil fuels.
Train carrying crude oil derails, explodes in Alabama
2013-11-09 03:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A 90-car train carrying North Dakota crude derailed and exploded in a rural area of western Alabama early on Friday, leaving 11 cars burning and potentially bolstering the push for tougher regulation of a boom in moving oil by rail. Twenty of the train's cars derailed and a number were still on fire on Friday afternoon, local officials said. Those cars, which threw flames 100 metres into the night sky, are being left to burn out, which could take up to 24 hours, according to the train owner, Genesee...
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Crude oil train derailment, explosions prompt talk of tougher regulations
2013-11-09 01:32:55| Real Estate - Topix.net
A 90-car train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in a rural area of western Alabama early on Friday, leaving 11 cars burning and potentially bolstering the push for tougher regulation of a boom in moving oil by rail.
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