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Secretly Approved in Alaska, Will LNG Trains Soon Appear in Rest of US?
Read time: 8 minsIn 2015, a federal rail agency authorized the Alaska Railroad Corporation to ship its first batch of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by rail in Alaska, but granted this permission behind...
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New York Attorney General: Feds Must Address Bakken Bomb Trains. Feds: Maybe...
Read time: 7 minsNew York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has joined with attorneys general from California, Illinois, Maryland, Maine, and Washington in calling for limits on the volatility of...
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Oil Trains Remain Industry’s Long-term Plan for Shipping to West Coast
Read time: 6 minsDespite a string of recent successes by West Coast communities to block the construction of oil-by-rail facilities, the oil industry has no plans to give up using rail to move oil to...
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Rail Industry Slow on Safety Upgrade for Fleets Carrying Oil and Ethanol
Read time: 6 minsA new government report finds that only 9 percent of all the rail tank cars transporting flammable liquids last year met the stricter safety requirements of regulations set in 2015,...
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Oil Money Pours into Washington State Port Election Ahead of Major Decision...
Read time: 6 minsBy Stephen QuirkeAn election in southern Washington could decide the fate of the country's largest proposed crude-by-rail terminal, and has recently come under heavy scrutiny as a rush...
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National Academy Study Touts Oil-by-Rail Safety But Supports Weakening...
Read time: 8 minsA new study by the National Academy of Sciences concludes that the rail industry should do more to improve the safety of transporting oil and ethanol by rail, which includes addressing...
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Washington Agency Votes to Reject Vancouver Energy’s Massive Oil-by-Rail...
Read time: 5 minsIn another major blow to the West Coast oil-by-rail industry, a Washington state agency voted unanimously to recommend Governor Jay Inslee reject the Vancouver Energy oil terminal....
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Port of Vancouver Votes to End Lease for West Coast Oil-by-Rail Terminal
Read time: 5 minsThis week, three port commissioners in Vancouver, Washington, put another nail in the coffin for Vancouver Energy's proposed crude-by-rail facility when the commission voted to not...
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Rail Workers Acquitted in Trial on Deadly Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Disaster
Read time: 15 minsThe train engineer and two additional rail workers who faced charges for the deadly July 2013 oil train accident in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, were acquitted on Friday after the jury...
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Washington Governor Inslee Rejects Major Oil-by-Rail Project
Read time: 5 minsOn January 29, Washington Governor Jay Inslee rejected a permit required for Tesoro-Savage to build the Vancouver Energy oil-by-rail facility, the largest such project in the nation,...
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Is This New Tar Sands Technology a Game Changer for Exporting Canada's Bitumen?
Read time: 7 minsA new technology has the potential to transform the transportation of tars sands oil. Right now, the already thick and slow-flowing oil, known as bitumen, has to be diluted with a...
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Canada's Pipeline Challenges Will Force More Tar Sands Oil to Move by Rail
Read time: 8 minsThe Motley Fool has been advising investors on “How to Profit From the Re-Emergence of Canada’s Crude-by-Rail Strategy.” But what makes transporting Canadian crude oil by rail...
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With Oil by Rail Poised for Comeback, Will Lack of Safety Regulations Mean...
Read time: 7 minsInvestors love a good comeback story and right now oil by rail seems to be a story they're pushing to justify investment in rail companies, especially Canadian ones.But with little...
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Canadian Government Declares Oil Trains Safe and Plans to Get Into the Oil...
Read time: 8 minsAs Canadian oil-by-rail numbers reach record new volumes (and expected to rise), Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) announced recently that it would no longer list shipping the...
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Despite Risks, Canada's Tar Sands Industry Is Betting Big on Oil Trains
Read time: 6 minsLast year, Canada exported a record amount of tar sands oil to the U.S., despite low oil prices leading to major losses once again for the struggling tar sands industry. That...
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'Bomb Trains,' a New Book on the Deadly, Ongoing Threat of Oil by Rail
Read time: 7 minsOn July 6, 2013, a train hauling crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken region derailed in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, resulting in fires and explosions that killed 47 people and wiped out a...
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Will Rail Be Key to Exporting Canada's Tar Sands Oil to the World?
Read time: 6 minsWhile Canadians turned out en masse for large climate protests last week, the country's oil and gas industry continued its plans to ramp up and export its massive and polluting...
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Forecast for 2020: More Oil Trains, Fires, Spills, and the Rise of LNG by Rail
Read time: 10 minsAs 2019 drew to a close and the new year ramps up, a number of signs point to the growing risks of transporting oil and gas by rail, with little government oversight to speak of: from...
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Canadian Town Evacuated After Another Oil Train Derails and Burns
Read time: 3 minsEarly in the morning of February 6, an oil train derailed and caught fire near Guernsey, Saskatchewan, resulting in the Canadian village's evacuation. This is the second oil train to...
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Oil-by-Rail Volumes Decreasing While Risks Remain
Read time: 7 minsThere are only two things that have made any real difference in protecting the public from the dangers of oil trains: activism that has stopped new infrastructure, and low oil prices....
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