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Oil Train Derailments Renew Questions About Safety
2015-02-17 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The derailments this week of two trains carrying crude oil have raised new questions about the adequacy of federal efforts to improve the safety of moving oil on tank cars from new North American wells to distant refineries. A 100-car, southbound CSX train derailed Monday in a West Virginia river valley, destroying a home and possibly contaminating the water supply for downriver residents. A thundering fireball rose hundreds of feet above the community amid an intense winter storm. Back-to-back...
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Oil Targeted After Fiery Train Derailments
2014-10-16 07:27:00| Chemical Processing
The derailment of several oil trains and subsequent fiery explosions have some calling on oil companies to make their oil less flammable.
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Obama Administration Proposes Stricter Rules for Crude Oil Trains to Halt Derailments
2014-07-23 18:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced details Wednesday of a proposal to make crude oil transportation safer, in a bid to prevent more derailments and the threats that accompany them. The proposal would phase out older DOT 111 tank cars that ship packing group I flammable liquids, a category that includes most Bakken crude oil. Retrofitting the tank cars to comply with new standards is the only way that wouldnt be phased out. Other elements of the proposal include braking controls,...
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How Extreme Heat Could Lead To More Oil Rail Car Derailments
2014-05-28 08:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Fossil fuel transportation by rail, already beleaguered by a series of disasters, could actually see things get worse thanks to the very climate change it`s helping to drive: as temperatures increase, rail tracks are more likely to warp, leading to more derailments. While the storms and floods and such that come with climate change threaten the United States` infrastructure in a variety of ways, bouts of extreme heat in particular can cause the metal rails in train tracks to bend and buckle, according...
Calgary fire department bills Canadian Pacific hundreds of thousands for derailments
2014-04-11 19:41:33| Railroads - Topix.net
The Calgary Fire Department has sent CP an invoice - estimated to be less than $500,000 - for costs of response to a derailment on the Bonnybrook bridge last summer.
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