Not exact matches
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.
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.
The act set up a structure for
oil spill response (mostly, local fishermen trained to respond to oil spills by using air quality equipment, booms, and skimmers) and an Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which can provide up to $ 1 billion worth of cleanup for any «oil liability incident.&raq
oil spill response (mostly, local fishermen
trained to respond to
oil spills by using air quality equipment, booms, and skimmers) and an Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which can provide up to $ 1 billion worth of cleanup for any «oil liability incident.&raq
oil spills by using air quality equipment, booms, and skimmers) and an
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which can provide up to $ 1 billion worth of cleanup for any «oil liability incident.&raq
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which can provide up to $ 1 billion worth of cleanup for any «
oil liability incident.&raq
oil liability
incident.»
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).