Repost from Maclean’s Magazine So it turns out Bakken oil is explosive after all Producers in North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields have been told to make crude is safer before being shipped by rail By Chris Sorensen, December 10, 2014 After years of insisting oil sucked from North Dakota’s Bakken shale wasn’t inherently dangerous, producers … Continue reading Maclean’s: So it turns out Bakken oil is explosive after all
Repost from The New York Times [Editor: this week saw dramatic action on the part of two US governors. See also Washington Gov. Inslee: Make big polluters pay for transportation projects. – RS] Citing Health Risks, Cuomo Bans Fracking in New York State By Thomas Kaplandec, Dec. 17, 2014 Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s administration announced … Continue reading New York Governor Cuomo bans fracking
Repost from The Huffington Post [Editor: This is a must read, a comprehensive summary by a visionary and influential old-timer. – RS] Unsafe and Unnecessary Oil Trains Threaten 25 Million Americans By Ralph Nader, 12/15/2014 Back in 1991 the National Transportation Safety Board first identified oil trains as unsafe — the tank cars, specifically ones called … Continue reading Ralph Nader: Unsafe and Unnecessary Oil Trains Threaten 25 Million Americans
Repost from the White Plains NY Journal News on LoHud.com [Editor: Significant quote: “At the CSX-owned Frontier Rail Yard in Buffalo, 106 DOT-111 crude oil tank cars were checked and three had found to have critical defects, including a cracked weld, a missing bolt and one inoperative brake assembly….Since the state began its “inspection blitz” last … Continue reading Federal inspectors find 100 defects on crude oil trains, tracks
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