«Please direct your company to remove all of the oil tankers from the Adirondack Park and abandon plans to store
more tanker cars here,» said the Adirondack Council's letter to Buffett.
Not exact matches
Train tracks and
tanker cars weren't built to accommodate trains carrying loads of heavy crude oil, making the trains
more likely to derail.
So it beggars belief that at a time when there are
more than 80,000 empty homes in London alone, when concerns about food supply and the need for agricultural security are becoming
more urgent, when our cities are at last beginning to revive thanks to densification strategies and the link between suburban sprawl and
car dependency is so obvious, that politicians and think -
tankers should begin to consider sacrificing the green belt for greedy house builders.
Federal statistics show
more than 672,000 oil
tanker cars traveled across the country through the first 10 months of last year.
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.
In addition to some nicely varied story missions (which may involve riding in a helicopter or exploding enemy
cars with a
tanker), there's an entire mess of sidequests with their own bizarre objectives — from a selection of race types (some involving competing against other
cars, others with
more unusual objectives) to the
more intriguing «Dares,» which demand eclectic driving feats.