As a followup to yesterday’s blog Keystone XL Pipeline May Be Replaced by Crude by Rail Link to Southern Keystone Pipeline, Source of Increased Safety Concerns, a few recent highlights on oil train issues across the country:
Source: Wikipedia
- Canadian Oil Could Cross Nebraska By Rail If Keystone XL Denied, NetNebraska (Midwest US)
- Sharp Rise In West Coast Oil Trains, Fears Abound, NPR (Vancouver, WA),
- Rail Towns: Some trying to stop oil trains, Brainerd Dispatch (Albany NY)
- Lawsuit Filed Over Fracked Oil Trains In The Bay Area, KPIX (Richmond CA)
- Area poorly prepared for crude-oil train fires, Chicago Tribune (Chicago IL)