OMG! Did you watch the first segment on Rachel tonight!

[avebury]

She talked about the recent railroad crashes with oil tankers. The focused on the oil being pumped out of the ground in North Dakota and that the oil companies aren't building the necessary infrastructure to remove the unstable, volatile compounds that are pumped out along with the oil. The oil companies are just pumping the oil into oil tankers on rail roads and shipping them off. They are so volatile that is why you have such horrible incidents like the crash yesterday in West Virginia (#2 crash of rail cars from ND).

It just seems like the oil companies are allowed to set what can only be described as mobile bombs out on the rails creating a real risk to the population.

If you missed this segment I recommend either DVRing the replay or download the podcast of today's show tomorrow.

[marym625]

1. They own the country. n/t

[elleng]

2. Thanks. Will watch rerun, after Westminster.

No surprise oil companies aren't building necessary infrastructure; they do whatever they want.

[bigwillq]

3. No (nt)

[Skidmore]

4. It is a must see bit of excellent journalism.

I just sent a note to my local news broadcaster to do a story locally. I live a little more than a football field's length from a rail road track on which tankers, some identifiable to ADM but others not marked at all, pass daily. If such an event were to happen here, it would devastate our village.

[elleng]

5. Good work, Skidmore.

[Lifelong Protester]

6. And as a person living along

the rails that those tankers regularly use...I'm a bit freaked out.

[Exhibit A]

7. Everyone should go watch this if they have time.

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It was very, very well done.

Updated link: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/nd-oil-train-safeguards-too-little-too-late-400706115523

[mucifer]

8. So will they air this on NBC news not just MSNBC news?

[KeepItReal]

9. Even Texas won't ship unprocessed oil as volatile as that stuff from ND

Unbelievable.

Great work by TRMS.

[barbtries]

10. you can watch the entire show on the website too.

i usually catch her while preparing for work.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. I'm sure you know about this....

http://podcastfeeds.nbcnews.com/audio/podcast/MSNBC-MADDOW-NETCAST-M4V.xml

But in case you miss one...

http://castroller.com/podcasts/MsnbcRachelMaddow

[glinda]

11. Those trains run several times a day through our town. Today

about 100 of them were stalled on the tracks for some reason. SOON they will spill. Soon. And the top of the Mississippi River will be polluted all the way down to the gulf to meet that pollution.
Please make it stop. Somehow.

[elleng]

13. It should be stopped.

The carriers stood on their heads to keep the routing of these trains 'secret.' http://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/27/exclusive-north-dakota-oil-rail-routes-published-first-time

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. There's also talk that the oil train wrecks are intentional to sell the pipeline as "safer"....

Which we all know is IMPOSSIBLE because history proves that greedy evil people have never killed for money.

[C Moon]

14. That was my first thought.

[avebury]

16. But if the oil companies continue to refuse to have the

volatile compounds removed from the oil and just pump it into a pipeline instead of oil tanker cars they will not have made the oil any safer. It would make me concerned that any pipeline used by the ND oil would still be a ticking time bomb.

Public safety should trump whiny oil company owners.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. Especially considering they get so many subsidies that they get paid to produce.....

Name a product where the cost of production is paid for by the government to the point where they cut you a check.

[malaise]

17. Here's the link

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/nd-oil-train-safeguards-too-little-too-late-400706115523

[Rhiannon12866]

19. Rachel is also repeated at midnight and 4am. n/t

[annabanana]

20. They should have made this mandatory viewing for the other MSNBC

talkers (and producers)!

I saw more partial +/or incorrect information pouring out the following morning. I knew far more than the people who were being paid the big buck to write their copy.