Featured on Bloomberg Business. A week after a CSX train hauling crude oil derailed and exploded 30 miles southeast of Charleston, W.Va., on Feb. 16, its mangled, charred tank cars were still being hauled from the crash site. Of the 27 cars that derailed, 19 had been engulfed in flames. The wreckage burned for almost three days. “It’s amazing …
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Featured on ABC News. Fiery wrecks of trains hauling crude oil have intensified pressure on the Obama administration to approve tougher standards for railroads and tank cars despite industry complaints that it could cost billions and slow freight deliveries. On Feb. 5, the Transportation Department sent the White House draft rules that would require oil …
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Full article published on Billings Gazette Last week, the new Congress passed a bipartisan bill approving the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline. While largely built, and already in operation today carrying oil from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, the Keystone expansion project has been caught in political limbo for more than six years. Despite overwhelming …
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Featured on CSPAN Brigham McCown and Bob Deans talked about oil transportation safety and oil pipelines. They also spoke about the train accident in West Virginia that resulted in a crude oil spill and oil fire.
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Featured on Al Jazeera America News Brigham McCown, Former Head of Energy Transport for the Department of Transportation, explains why.
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Featured on NBC – Today The wreckage of a fiery train derailment in West Virginia is still burning nearly two days after the accident. The crash is raising new fears about the nation’s aging rail system. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports.
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Featured on ABC Brigham McCown talks on train safety and the need for safer rails following the West Virginia train derailment. Greater regulations and increased investment are encouraged to maintain safety and efficiency.
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Featured on BNN Brigham McCown, Managing Director, Nouveau Corp. & former CEO of the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration joins BNN for a look at the crude-carrying train derailment in West Virginia, and why the U.S. handling of Keystone XL has been an embarassment.
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Originally posted on Bloomberg, article written by Thomas Black and Jim Snyder. Video images of a fireball billowing from the wreckage of a derailed train hauling Bakken crude are adding to pressure on federal regulators to act on new safety standards for oil shipments. While there were no fatalities in the CSX Corp. accident in rural West Virginia …
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Originally published on IBTimes.com, article written by Maria Gallucci The fiery derailments of two trains carrying crude oil this week are raising fresh concerns about the safety of moving oil by rail. Recent accidents in West Virginia and Ontario come as federal regulators and transportation companies struggle to address a rapid rise in oil tanker …
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