Papantonio: Oil Trains Pose Significant Risk to America

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Mike Papantonio talks with Thom Hartmann about the recent railway disaster in North Dakota, and how the situation shows the dangers that oil trains pose.

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1. Papantonio K&R. I think this is from Thursday's Thom Hartmann radio show,

since Pap is on the show every Thursday 4pm ET.

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2. Warren Buffet owns the N Dakota railroad where the explosion took place.

Free Republic has some articles about using the railroads for transport of oil as the Keystone is not going anywhere. Buffet and others put a lot of money into the pipeline instead of the railroad and terminals. Please feel free to research over the internet. (I did not want to link Free Republic to DU.)

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3. A lot has to do with training.

From my experience with the Union Pacific Rail Road actual territorial training areas are fictitious. The areas that are used as a training aid are not the same areas or infrastructure the crews are required to work on. Plus the angle of repose used in excavation is totally ignored, or simply called the slope in the training process that would highlight buffer and drag forces. Actually if you asked the average engineer at Union Pacific what is a Newton most would have no idea what you mean!

More over most testing is salted with the use of conditional negatives or double negative type questions that wind up being ambiguous needing to be answered by a training manager with a great deal of bias. I could identify at least one manager that threatens anyone who would challenge a question would get fired.

These are just a few experiences at the rail road. Currently, looking for someone to help me write a book about my adventures with the Union Pacific rail road. It is as many suspect a business run like a cattle drive using safety in clever ways to avoid responsibility.

My book will include the OSHA process for those that are interested. My reason are deeply honest to expose what is the face of Congress and the Senate that are tied to commerce and industry in general health care. In what was thought to be clever the safety director deliberately tried to ditch an injury report, however from what I was told does this sort of thing system wide.