Sentences with phrase «crude oil train»
The above requirements will enable SERCs, and accordingly, state and local emergency responders, to have a reasonable expectation of the petroleum crude oil train traffic, and prepare accordingly for the possibility of an accident involving a train transporting a large quantity of Bakken crude oil.
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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which is investigating, noted on Saturday that the accident occurred about 23 miles (37 km) from the site of a Feb. 14 accident involving a CN crude oil train.
No recent crude oil train derailments have been attributed to sun kinks.
He refers to the April 30th explosion of a crude oil train that derailed in Lynchburg, Virginia.
A crude oil train sits parked outside the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery owned by the Carlyle Group in south Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 20, 2014.
Activists say these trains pose a risk to the millions who live along the tracks where crude oil trains travel.
Longtime Albany activist Charlene Benton, who fought for clean air and against the crude oil trains running through city, has died.
Three weeks later, it announced that it had been selected by the Department of Environmental Conservation to deal with «emergencies caused by crude oil trains.»
Not exact matches
Fire crews have extinguished a fire that raged in Oregon after a Union Pacific Corp train carrying crude oil derailed on Friday and burst into flames near the Columbia River in the town of Mosier., the Federal Rail Administration said.
The crude oil trade was largely responsible for turning around the fortunes of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, which owned the train that was eastbound through Lac - Mégantic.
Train tracks and tanker cars weren't built to accommodate trains carrying loads of heavy crude oil, making the trains more likely to derail.
Analysts at Canaccord Genuity said Monday the project's $ 5.3 - bilion northern leg «is no longer a necessity» for Canadian oil sands producers, thanks to the sudden rise of crude - carrying unit trains and rival pipeline schemes proposed by Enbridge Inc..
The price gap between Canadian and world oil prices has shrunk as more oil has been loaded on to train cars and smaller pipeline projects in the US have helped siphon off the backlog of crude piling up in the Midwest.
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?
The South End of Albany, as well as neighborhoods in Cohoes located near the «bomb» trains carrying Bakken crude oil still suffer from asthma, bronchitis and multiple cases of cancer that residents attribute to the air pollution.
It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.
One would carry crude oil, which arrives in Albany by train from North Dakota's Bakken Shale region, to the refinery.
Bill Barr, who lives on Livingston Street in the village, also said the pipeline would not replace train or barge transport of crude oil and would pose a great risk of contaminating aquifers.
State and federal inspectors have completed a second round of safety checks of train tracks and oil tanker cars in an effort to prevent derailments and spills of volatile crude from North Dakota's Bakken region.
«Because of a regulatory loophole, these trains can carry crude oil through some of our most densely populated areas without any limit on explosiveness or flammability — creating ticking time bombs that jeopardize the safety of countless New Yorkers and Americans,» Schneiderman said in a statement.
We risk our lives every time a train passes near us carrying Bakken crude oil.»
Dozens of unit trains carrying more than 100 tankers of crude oil travel through New York each week.
County Executive Dan McCoy issued a moratorium on a project by Global Partners — a Port of Albany tenant — to build a crude oil heating facility that would make it easier to pump in cold weather and has been vocal about the threat that the trains pose to communities situated beside train tracks.
In light of the March 7 CSX train derailment in Newburgh, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli wrote to U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao requesting that she consider additional safety measures to reduce risks and protect New Yorkers from the transport of crude oil and any hazardous materials by rail.
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.
On average, two crude oil freight trains travel through Ulster County per day and each day one barge passes along the Hudson River between Dutchess and Ulster counties carrying more than 4 million gallons of oil.
The Green Party opposes the petroleum «bomb trains» transporting highly explosive crude oil from North Dakota through local communities, including Catskill.
Freshman Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik shares Senator Schumer's concern about oil trains, including his mantra to build stronger cars, but she believes in other ways to reduce the reliance on oil trains to move Bakken crude.
It would connect the Port of Albany, where a stepped - up flow of trains carrying Bakken crude oil from North Dakota currently hook up with barges destined for refineries in northern New Jersey.
He supports a halt to the crude oil «bomb» trains that increasingly traverse NYS.
Albany County hasn't had a major oil train disaster, but County Executive Dan McCoy, erring on the side of «safe, not sorry» called a community «Crude Oil Transportation Summit» to brainstorm and compare notes with officials who have had to deal with such calamitioil train disaster, but County Executive Dan McCoy, erring on the side of «safe, not sorry» called a community «Crude Oil Transportation Summit» to brainstorm and compare notes with officials who have had to deal with such calamitiOil Transportation Summit» to brainstorm and compare notes with officials who have had to deal with such calamities.
I want a moratorium on crude oil «bomb» trains through New York State for safety reasons.
As politicians scramble to expedite laws addressing crude oil transport by rail, citizens gathered in Albany today to demand the trains be banned from rolling on New York tracks.
They say the rapid escalation of train transport of crude oil throughout their districts has prompted concern.
The train, which was carrying North Dakota crude to an oil depot in Yorktown, Virginia, derailed in a small town 33 miles (54 km) southeast of Charleston.
«But if you dump a train with hazmat (hazardous materials) or liquid nitrogen or crude oil, it starts burning.
That was the case with several recent derailments involving trains carrying North Dakota Bakken shale crude oil exploding violently.
From the Reuters news report: A 90 - car train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in western Alabama in the early hours of Friday morning, spilling oil and leaving eleven cars burning in the rural area.
Bakken crude oil was found to be more volatile than oil extracted elsewhere, forcing the USDOT to issue an emergency order on May 7 requiring all railroads carrying Bakken crude oil to notify state emergency responders about the operations of those trains in their states.
For instance, «Air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of moving a fully loaded 100 - car train of crude oil from North Dakota to the Gulf Coast are about $ 150,000 and from North Dakota to the East Coast are $ 210,000.
It was the latest in a series of North American derailments involving trains hauling crude oil, raising concerns about rail safety.
A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying crude oil that derailed near the northern Ontario community of Gogama early on Saturday is still on fire, the company said late on Sunday
TORONTO, March 8 (Reuters)- A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying crude oil that derailed near the northern Ontario community of Gogama early on Saturday is still on fire, the company said late on Sunday.
The train had 94 cars containing crude oil.
Yet another train carrying volatile crude oil from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota derailed yesterday, this time in northwestern Illinois near the historic tourist area of Galena overlooking the Mississippi River.
July 6, 2014 • It's been a year since a train carrying crude oil exploded near a town in Quebec, killing nearly 50.
A train leaves the Rangeland Energy company's crude oil loading terminal near Epping, N.D..
The rule would expand the comprehensive oil spill response plan requirements under the Clean Water Act to certain HHFT trains based on the amount of crude oil being transported.
The notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) will most likely require a minimum of two person crews for most mainline train operations including those trains carrying crude oil.
Today's Emergency Order, the fourth from DOT in less than a year, was issued in response to recent derailments involving trains carrying crude oil from the Bakken region and out of concerns over proper classification that are currently under investigation as part of Operation Classification, also known as the «Bakken Blitz.»