Risky Crude Oil Shipments Sometimes Ride North Texas Rails
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As Oil Production Soars, So Have Pipeline Leaks
Read the full story at DailyNews.com The oil pipeline leak that fouled a stretch of California coastline this week reflects a troubling trend in the nation’s infrastructure: As U.S. oil production has soared, so has the number of pipeline accidents. Since 2009, the annual number of significant accidents on oil and petroleum pipelines has …
Read More →Obama Says More Money Needed for the US Rail System
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Read More →Oil Tankers: Danger on the Rails
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Read More →Fiery Derailment
ABC Breaking US News | ABC Politics News Originally published on ABC News. An early-morning oil train derailment today has led to the evacuation of a small town in North Dakota. About 40 residents of Heimdal, North Dakota, were forced to leave their homes around 7:30 a.m. today after the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tanker …
Read More →North Dakota town evacuated after latest oil train car explosion
Originally posted on LA Times. When the Obama administration imposed new safety rules on oil trains last week, the railroad industry said its goal was to have zero accidents in the future. It took only a few days to miss that difficult target. A BNSF train hauling 109 tank cars derailed in rural North Dakota …
Read More →Small town evacuated after oil train derails in North Dakota
Originally posted on Reuters. A BNSF train carrying crude oil owned by Hess Corp derailed and caught fire in North Dakota on Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of a nearby small town just days after the United States and Canada announced reforms to improve the safety of such shipments. About 40 residents from the tiny Wells …
Read More →Rebuilding the Nation’s Aging Energy Network
Originally posted on FuelFix. Once the envy of the modern world, the nation’s infrastructure system now works overtime just to keep up with the growing needs of the energy grid. While many understand the need for continued investment in roads and bridges, the same cannot be easily said of the nation’s aging energy infrastructure. This …
Read More →North Dakota crash highlights lack of progress on oil train safety in Minnesota
Originally posted on MinnPost. Repercussions from yesterday’s oil train derailment in North Dakota. Don Davis of the Forum News Service reports, “A North Dakota oil train derailment reinforces the fact that Minnesota legislators have a week and a half left in their 2015 session but have not settled on what they would do to improve …
Read More →Obama’s Oil Train Regs Don’t Solve The Derailment Problem
Originally posted on The Daily Caller. The recent derailment of a BNSF Railway train near a small town in North Dakota has reignited the debate over railcar safety — a debate which has sparked contentious new rules governing oil tank cars. But new regulations for oil tank cars don’t actually solve the problems of train …
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