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'Bomb Trains,' a New Book on the Deadly, Ongoing Threat of Oil by Rail


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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 ....

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Comment: Rail Industry Publication Attacks New York Times Over Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Tragedy


Comment: Rail Industry Publication Attacks New York Times Over Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Tragedy
Six years after the oil train derailment and explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec which claimed 47 lives and destroyed the downtown of this small lakeside town The New York Times reviewed what progress has been made since the disaster, with a headline that noted “Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails.”
However, Railway Age, the leading rail industry publication, attacked The Times’ coverage in an incredibly flawed critique. The title of finance editor David Nahass’s take-down is “Clickbait Journalism at The New York Times.”
In reality, both stories miss the mark on oil train safety. ....

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