Sentences with phrase «involving oil trains»

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.

And then, on Dec. 30, a collision involving another oil train forced evacuation of a city in North Dakota.

Not exact matches

One of the largest accidental releases of oil in Alberta's history isn't a burst pipeline and it doesn't involve a train of tanker cars derailing into a river.

Since the July 2013 Lac - Megantic fatal train disaster and other recent incidents involving oil by rail, Transport Canada has faced questions about whether it adequately addressed safety oversight concerns surrounding the transportation of dangerous cargo, which were repeatedly raised in internal audits.

With more oil being shipped via train from the Bakken region in North Dakota and adjacent Canada to the East Coast, and more accidents involving those tanker cars, safety concerns have been growing.

A similar incident in Lynchburg, Virginia, involved a train that was also headed to Plains All American Pipelines LP's oil depot in Yorktown, Virginia.

That was the case with several recent derailments involving trains carrying North Dakota Bakken shale crude oil exploding violently.

It was the latest in a series of North American derailments involving trains hauling crude oil, raising concerns about rail safety.

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.

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.

The Oil and Gas industry have been some of the earliest adopters on the basis that the operations involved in the training can be incredibly expensive to do with repetition.

The first phase of this project involved a one - year pilot across three of their locations — a refinery, a training center, and the oil ministry.

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.»

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.

On July 6, 2013, a catastrophic railroad accident involving a U.S. railroad company occurred in Lac - Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, when an unattended freight train transporting petroleum crude oil rolled down a descending grade and subsequently derailed.