Tag Archives: Crude by Rail

Bakken Crude, Crude By Rail, Derailment, Evacuation, Explosion, Fire

Overnight Video: Illinois Oil Train Derailment

Repost from CQ Roll Call

Video: Illinois Oil Train Derailment

By Roll Call Staff, March 6, 2015 12:13 p.m.

 

A BNSF unit train carrying oil derailed Thursday in Illinois.

One family evacuated, the Associated Press reported.

The derailment occurred 3 miles south of Galena in a wooded and hilly area that is a major tourist attraction and the home of former President Ulysses S. Grant. The Jo Daviess County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the train was transporting oil from the Northern Plains’ Bakken region.

Crude By Rail, Derailment, Explosion, Fire

Live TV news coverage: Galena derailment – video of fire and explosions

Repost from KWQC TV6, Davenport IA
[Editor: Good interview at Incident Command location with Galena City Administrator Mark Moran showing smoke plumes in the background.  Also separate video of explosions and a segment with ariel video showing crude oil and trees on fire.  – RS]

Train derails south of Galena, Ill.

By Jeff Whitten, March 5, 2015, 2:37 pm Updated: March 5, 2015, 6:16 pm

 GALENA, Ill. – (KWQC) – The Jo Daviess County Sheriff says a train has derailed south of Galena where the Galena River meets the Mississippi River.

We have confirmed that the train was carrying oil. Our news team is near the scene and can see smoke coming from the fire. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tells TV-6 that fire crews were pulled away from the fire because of the danger.

You can also see a large plume of smoke from the live slope cameras located at Chestnut Mountain Ski Resort. Two members of the Coast Guard are also on their way to the scene. Iowa American Water company, which uses the Mississippi River as a source for drinking water, has not been notified of the incident.

BNSF released this statement on the derailment:

A BNSF Railway train derailed at approximately 1:20 pm CST in a rural area south of Galena, IL. There are no injuries reported. The train consists of 105 loaded cars, which includes 103 cars loaded with crude oil and 2 buffer cars loaded with sand. BNSF responders are en route. No further information is available at this time.

Crude By Rail, Derailment, Ontario CA

LATEST DERAILMENT: Another train derails in Ontario, Canada

Repost from the The Sault Star

Train derails east of Hornepayne, 0ntario

 March 6, 2015 7:23:34 EST AM

Sixteen train cars derailed near Hornepayne early Thursday.

The derailment happened at 6:30 a.m. about 90 kilometres east of the community, Canadian National Railway says.

Cause is under investigation.

A train, carrying 101 cars, was westbound from Toronto to Edmonton when the incident occurred, said Jim Feeny, director of public and government affairs.

The 16 emptied tanker cars that last contained flammable liquids were “located towards the end of the train,” he said in a telephone interview from Montreal.

No one was injured. No hazardous goods leaked.

Service on CN’s main Northern Ontario line resumed at 4 a.m. Friday.

“The incident is over,” Feeny told The Sault Star. “Service has returned to normal.”

Transportation Safety Board has asked the railway for information about the derailment.

“We’re going to take a look at what we get,” said spokesman John Cottreau. “It’s being assessed right now.”

(with files from Reuters)

Contra Costa County, Crude By Rail, Local Regulation, Phillips 66, San Francisco Bay Area, Tar sands crude

Rodeo, California: Phillips 66 project faces additional lawsuits

Repost from The Contra Costa Times
[Editor: see also Communities for a Better Environment sues CCCounty and P66 and Lawsuit filed to Stop Tar Sands in the Bay Area.  – RS]

Rodeo: Phillips 66 project faces additional lawsuits

By Tom Lochner, 03/06/2015 06:03:54 AM PST

RODEO — A second organization has sued to block a propane and butane recovery project at a Rodeo refinery, and a third announced it would do so as well Thursday.

Rodeo Citizens Association filed suit Thursday in Contra Costa Superior Court, Martinez against Contra Costa County and the Phillips 66 Co., contending Phillips wants to transport heavy and dirty tar sands crude by rail from outside the state to a sister refinery in San Luis Obispo County and pipe the semi-refined oil to Rodeo. The association further contends that a county-approved Environmental Impact Report fails to note that the project would increase air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

On Wednesday, Communities for a Better Environment sued the county and Phillips 66, contending the project is part of a grander plan to process heavy, dirty tar sands crude that would come to California by rail.

Phillips 66 spokesman Paul Adler said Thursday he had not seen the Rodeo Citizens Association suit and therefore could not comment on it. On Wednesday, commenting on the CBE suit, Adler had called that organization’s allegations “inaccurate and misleading.”

“Following two years of careful analysis by the Contra Costa County board (of Supervisors) and its expert staff, claims that this project is a crude by rail project were dismissed,” Adler said Wednesday.

Also on Thursday, Safe Fuel Energy Resources of California, a group representing workers at the Rodeo refinery, sued the county and Phillips 66 in Superior Court, Martinez, according to an announcement by the firm Public Good PR LLC. The group contends, among other allegations, that Phillips 66 wants to bring in tar sands crude from out-of-state and that the county improperly “piecemealed” its review of the Rodeo project from other Phillips 66 projects and neglected to analyze the cumulative levels of the various projects on air quality and human health and safety.

The timing of Safe Fuel Energy Resources’ filing was not known as of late Thursday.