There s a bullet whizzing past our head, said Eric de Place, an energy policy expert and director at the Sightline Institute, a Seattle-based think tank focused on sustainability issues in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
On average, more than a million barrels of crude oil travel through Washington state each week, most of it from North Dakota but about 13 per cent from Alberta and Saskatchewan, according to the state s Department of Ecology.
The risks were punctuated late last year when seven tanker cars carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire just outside Bellingham, Wash., a city of nearly 90,000 people not far from the Canada-U.S. border.
U S analysts predict more oil by rail as cross-border pipeline debates rage
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As debate rages over cross-border pipelines, U S analysts brace for more oil by rail
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