Sentences with phrase «oil train explosion»

Fracking Boom Leading to Fracking Bust: Scientists Quebec Oil Train Explosion Visible from Space Decision by Obama Won't Keep Oil from Flowing

Opposition to Global's activities increased dramatically after the company attempted to build the crude - heating facility and after a 2013 oil train explosion killed 47 people in Canada.

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The derailment and explosions, which took place around 1:15 a.m. on Saturday, underscored a debate in the effort to transport North America's oil across long distances: is it safer and less environmentally destructive to move huge quantities of crude oil by train or by pipeline?

«We have an explosion of tight oil production in Canada and the United States, and most of it is moving by train,» said Anthony Swift, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.

Spurred by recent train derailments that have lead to explosions and oil spills, law makers are thinking about reducing the speed limit trains carrying oil can travel.

He refers to the April 30th explosion of a crude oil train that derailed in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The increased inspections followed several accidents involving oil trains that resulted in explosions, fires and, in one instance, the deaths of 47 people in Lac - Megantic, Quebec.

Tens of millions of dollars have been put toward infrastructure for transporting that oil out of state, but recent derailments and explosions involving oil tanker trains are prompting calls for a slow - down.

These incidents include over three - hundred unreported spills from 2012 to 2013, several significant leaks of oil and polluted saltwater into streams and farmland in the six months prior to the latest train derailment (see here and here), a decade - old saltwater spill which is still being cleaned up coupled with a pipeline rupture discovered in September 2013 which will take another four years to clean, and a natural - gas pipeline explosion across the border in Canada, which impacted gas availability in several U.S. states during the winter of 2014 (see here and here).

«We all use oil...» - Western States Petroleum Association representative Frank Holmes, responding to questions about the dramatic increase in catastrophic explosions from oil trains

Lac - Megantic train explosion rekindles pipeline debate On Saturday, a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded destroying an historic part of Lac - Megantic, Quebec and killing at least four 13 people..

As firefighters continue to fight the train fire and search for the 40 50 missing people, this explosion has already rekindled the debate over transporting oil by rail or by pipeline.