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A wind-turbine assembly line in Saint-Nazaire, France. A plan for a wind-tower factory in upstate New York raised concerns about the lack of a domestic supply chain.Credit.Theophile Trossat for The New York Times
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Waste Management wants to transfer household garbage at facility there
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Dominick Calsolaro points to Waste Management garbage bins at the Port of Albany on Friday, April 30, 2021 in Albany, N.Y. He opposes a proposal by Waste Management to accept household municipal waste at its transfer station 100 Boat Street at the Port of Albany, a large enclosed building, which is not pictured, where the company is currently allowed to handle 749 tons of construction and demolition debris, dry commercial waste and recyclables each day. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)(Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union
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On 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 large part of the small Canadian town’s center. At the time I was living in Albany, New York, which had become a major distribution point for Bakken oil delivered to the Port of Albany in mile-long trains like the one that devastated Lac-Mégantic. In the six months following the deadly disaster, several more trains of Bakken oil derailed and exploded across North America.
As the risk of these oil trains became very apparent, I began investigating how the trains could be allowed to travel through communities like mine in Albany and started publishing my findings here at DeSmog. Now, just after the six year anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic disaster, I have compiled all of that research into the new book