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Train Carrying Oil Derails and Explodes
Daily Mail ^
| 6 July 2013
| Jessica Jerreat
Posted on 07/06/2013 11:43:19 AM PDT by fella
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This is why we changed from using tank cars to pipelines over a hundred years ago.
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posted on
07/06/2013 11:43:19 AM PDT
by
fella
To: fella
And the Keystone pipe line is unsafe due to possibe spills and certainly rail is much better. (sarc)
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posted on
07/06/2013 11:46:53 AM PDT
by
DaveA37
(I'm for SMALLER , HONEST government)
To: Progov
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posted on
07/06/2013 11:47:41 AM PDT
by
Errant
To: fella
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.
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posted on
07/06/2013 11:55:57 AM PDT
by
NautiNurse
(Now we all have Obama phones.)
To: fella; Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...
That photo is downright apocalyptic.
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
Canada Ping!
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posted on
07/06/2013 11:57:14 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
To: fella
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posted on
07/06/2013 11:57:25 AM PDT
by
deport
To: fella
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.
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posted on
07/06/2013 12:03:49 PM PDT
by
Tucker39
To: Errant
[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.
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posted on
07/06/2013 12:05:06 PM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
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posted on
07/06/2013 12:05:51 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: Tucker39
'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.
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posted on
07/06/2013 12:09:14 PM PDT
by
Theoria
To: Progov
Better to kill humans than bother an owls nesting habits. Besides, there are too many humans.
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posted on
07/06/2013 12:18:24 PM PDT
by
deadrock
(I am someone else.)
To: Theoria
Pipelines are buried over 3 feet deep.
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posted on
07/06/2013 12:30:23 PM PDT
by
IMR 4350
To: IMR 4350
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posted on
07/06/2013 12:30:46 PM PDT
by
Theoria
To: IMR 4350
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posted on
07/06/2013 12:36:51 PM PDT
by
deadrock
(I am someone else.)
To: fella
How old is the Alaska pipeline now?
Other than a drunk shooting at it, what have been the mega crises with it?
none.
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posted on
07/06/2013 12:57:08 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(There is only one solution: Secession by the Red states.No need to be in the NYC union.)
To: Theoria
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.
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posted on
07/06/2013 2:11:37 PM PDT
by
Newbomb Turk
("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.")
To: fella
Another terrorist attack.. Chinese may have funded it
To: NoLibZone
Amost 40 years old. easily
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posted on
07/06/2013 2:30:31 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
To: Newbomb Turk
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.
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posted on
07/06/2013 2:47:13 PM PDT
by
Theoria
To: fella
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.
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