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Home Posts tagged "Bakken Shale"

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Update on Galena IL oil train – 21 cars involved, which were the supposedly safer CP1232 design

March 7, 2015 March 30, 2015

Yesterday, a BNSF trail carrying 103 crude oil cars derailed on tracks bordering the Mississippi River in a remote part of Illinois near Galena.  Today there’s some further information which clears up some unknowns about the incident.  It’s now known the fire was more extensive than thought yesterday, involving more…

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Another oil bomb train – why are they shipping crude oil by train? – Symptoms of fossil fuel addiction

March 6, 2015 October 19, 2015

Mike Burley, THONLINE Another week another bomb train, it seems.  Last week it was West Virginia, this week Galena Illinois.  This time a 105 car train, 103 of which were crude oil tankers, derailed in a remote section of Illinois just off the Mississippi River.   According to a news…

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State Dept report on Keystone XL admits stopping the pipeline won’t matter, opens door to approval

January 31, 2014 March 31, 2015

  The long-awaited environmental impact statement on the Keystone XL pipeline seems to clear the way for the approval of that controversial project, according to a report by the New York Times.  Why?  It’s what I’ve written recently.  The oil companies are intent on bringing oil from the Alberta Tar…

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Toxic flammable crude oil from Bakken causing problems for oil shipment and processing companies

August 14, 2013 March 31, 2015

Crude oil coming from hydraulic fracturing dependent oil operations in the Bakken Shale region are more dangerous, more explosive, than crude oil from other sources. Crude oil isn’t normally seen as a high explosion risk hazmat material. The train derailment in Quebec in July that resulted in a huge explosion…

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