Environmentalists 'get real creative' to combat oil by rail

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Environmentalists 'get real creative' to combat oil by rail
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059992784

Blake Sobczak, E&E reporter
EnergyWire: Monday, January 13, 2014

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Midstream companies and refiners are facing more organized resistance as environmentalists wake up to the oil-by-rail movements driving much of the U.S. shale energy boom.
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The deadly July 6, 2013, oil train derailment and explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, put the North American crude-by-rail surge on the map in much the same way the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico drew attention to offshore drilling.
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Subsequent oil train explosions in Alabama and North Dakota galvanized the public, though they injured no one. The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has pledged to fast-track an investigation of North Dakota crude's volatility and is also considering adopting tougher standards for the type DOT-111 tank cars used to haul oil.

The Association of American Railroads points out that more than 99.9 percent of all hazardous materials shipments reach their destination safely. Regulators at the Federal Railroad Administration also note that freight train accident rates have steadily declined over the past decade and a half.

Google "DOT-111" at DU for other recent threads in the Economy Group that discuss this tank car.

DOT-111 tank car
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT-111_tank_car