Train Carrying Oil Derails and Explodes

Daily Mail ^ | 6 July 2013 | Jessica Jerreat

[fella]

The center of a Quebec town has been wiped out, according to the mayor, after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in a fireball at 1am on Saturday. About 30 buildings were destroyed and 60 people are believed to be missing, but the force of the fire has prevented rescue workers from searching for survivors. Parts of the town were . . .

[fella]

This is why we changed from using tank cars to pipelines over a hundred years ago.

[DaveA37]

And the Keystone pipe line is unsafe due to possibe spills and certainly rail is much better. (sarc)

[Errant]

Buffett train?

[NautiNurse]

Parked the train outside the train...autopilot. Sounds like a deadly combination.

The Montreal Maine & Atlantic train did not have a driver and was being run on autopilot.

The train's conductor had parked the train outside the train and got off it as he
waited for someone to take over his shift, when it somehow 'got released', the
railway company's vice-president Josephy R. McGonigle said.

[Squawk 8888]

That photo is downright apocalyptic.

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

[deport]

Video in French

[Tucker39]

This is precisely why Obunga fights Keystone pipeline; to line Buffet’s pockets, with appropriate under the radar rewards for O in the Caymans or elsewhere, since Buffet owns the stateside portion of the RR.....And also to leave the RRs exposed as sitting ducks for terrorism, as this incident very probably was.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[Buffett train?]

Apparently not but Buffett’s BNSF has transit rights on 8,000 miles of Canadian track. BNSF can operate their own trains with U.S. crews on these rails.

[Errant]

Thanks for the info!

[Theoria]

'leave the RRs exposed as sitting ducks for terrorism,'

And a pipeline of hundreds of miles of needed protection is different? By in large terrorism is a absurdly small threat to be concerned about in relation to things like that.

Accidents/negligence happens in all forms of transportation.

[deadrock]

Better to kill humans than bother an owls nesting habits. Besides, there are too many humans.

[IMR 4350]

Pipelines are buried over 3 feet deep.

[Theoria]

Not in all locations.

[deadrock]

Not always.

[NoLibZone]

How old is the Alaska pipeline now?

Other than a drunk shooting at it, what have been the mega crises with it?

none.

[Newbomb Turk]

Generally pipelines don't run through the center of town. Most is through sparsely populated areas. There are thousands upon thousands of pipelines across the USA transporting the gasoline we use, jet fuel, natural gas.

Stopping the Keystone pipeline is about keeping Warren Buffet and his investors in business transporting shale crude by rail.

[22ndMEUMarine]

Another terrorist attack.. Chinese may have funded it

[Chickensoup]

Amost 40 years old. easily

[Theoria]

In principle the Keystone is/will not be a large factor in preventing shale crude by trail.

Secondly, pipeline accident/negligence do happen as well. Explosions always get the enviros stirred up.

[Red Dog #1]

The August issue of Trains magazine has an article touting rails safety moving oil vs. pipelines based on million ton mile stats...looks like they might need to do an update next month.

Interesting, it doesn't take much reading between the lines to see the environmental opposition is being used to keep the Keystone pipe line and Canadian tar sands oil out of our markets in favor of domestically produced shale oil and railroads.