Repost from SFGate (San Francisco Chronicle) New rules for crude-by-rail transport fall short By Lois Kazakoff on May 1, 2015 5:50 PM The U.S. Department of Transportation unveiled new rules on transporting crude oil by rail Friday that set a timeline to get old-technology, easily punctured tank cars off U.S. and Canadian rail lines but fail … Continue reading New rules for crude-by-rail transport fall short
Repost of an email from Fred Millar [Editor: Dr. Fred Millar is a policy analyst, researcher, educator, and consultant with more than three decades of experience assessing the risks associated with transporting hazardous materials. More about Fred here on p. 3 of his Comment on Valero Benicia’s crude by rail proposal. – RS] NEW REGULATIONS: … Continue reading Expert comments on new DOT rules – Dr. Fred Millar
Repost from Bloomberg Business News [Editor: A local resident observed that the photo below was taken at the docks here in Benicia, California — home of Valero Benicia Refinery. The Bloomberg story says that the contaminated oil originated with Chevron and was stored at Plains All American in Martinez. But maybe there’s more to the story? … Continue reading Contaminated Oil That No One Wants Is Heading to Asia: California allows rare export exemption
Our Earth Day refocus on the larger issues By Roger Straw, Editor, The Benicia Independent, April 22, 2015 My initial alarm over Valero’s proposal to build a crude-by-rail offloading facility here in my hometown came almost two years ago now, when I learned of the destruction in Alberta Canada caused by the mining and processing … Continue reading Yes, they are “Bomb Trains.” Even more importantly, they are “Global Destruction Trains”