The truth doesn't matter to the media. Testing of Bakken crude oil has shown it to be well within the normal parameters of light sweet crude oil, with vapor pressure and volatility well within parameters for shipping--in the very tank cars it is shipped in.
The onus here should be on railroad safety.
Note, no big headlines when tank cars of Ethanol derail and explode. But, then, that ethanol is required by the government to mix in your fuel.
Testing of Bakken crude oil has shown it to be well within the normal parameters of light sweet crude oil, Which is why all those reports compared it to heavy oil. True statements, completely misleading, but true.