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Senators Try To Stop The Coming Oil Train Wreck
Forbes ^ | 4/06/2015 | James Conca

Posted on 04/07/2015 4:58:51 AM PDT by thackney

Spearheaded by the Senators from Washington_State, legislation just introduced in the United States Senate will finally address the rash of crude oil train wrecks and explosions that have skyrocketed over the last two years in parallel with the steep rise in the amount of crude oil transported by rail.

Oil production is at an all-time high in America, great for our economy and energy independence, but bad for the people and places that lie along the shipping routes.

Just since February, there have been four fiery derailments of crude oil trains in North America and many more simple spills.

More shale crude oil is being shipped by rail than ever before – every minute, shipments of more than two million gallons of crude are traveling distances of over a thousand miles in unit trains of more than a hundred tank cars.

U.S. railroads delivered 7_million barrels of crude in 2008, 46_million in 2011, 163_million in 2012, and 262 million in 2013, almost as much as that anticipated by the Keystone XL Pipeline alone....

...Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the Crude-By-Rail Safety Act of 2015.

It’s no coincidence that the first two Senators listed are from Washington State. Trains hauling this type of flammable crude pass through our state every day, right through population centers totaling over a million people. And the number of oil trains will double next year.

This is strange for WA State because it’s the least carbon emitting state in the union and has already satisfied any and all carbon goals one could reasonably think up for any other state. And the state is poised to go even further. So increased oil and coal shipments across its length has the people of Washington State a bit concerned....

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Washington; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 114th; energy; hydrocarbons; methane; oil; opec; petroleum; rail

1 posted on 04/07/2015 4:58:51 AM PDT by thackney
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Crude-By-Rail Legislation
http://www.cantwell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/crude-by-rail?ID=50074c67-1f07-4d84-b69e-d74b88ce8289


2 posted on 04/07/2015 5:00:25 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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While rail is an extremely safe mode, pipeline is even safer. How many of these numbskulls are opposed to the exel and other pipelines?


3 posted on 04/07/2015 5:06:13 AM PDT by sgtyork (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
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To: sgtyork

Beat me to it.


4 posted on 04/07/2015 5:10:25 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: sgtyork

All four voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00068


5 posted on 04/07/2015 5:10:31 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

The dim bulb enviro-nazis of Washington state vehemently oppose Keystone, so millions of barrels of flammable crude come through their cities, while Buffet and the other railroad owners count their profits. How stupid can you be?


6 posted on 04/07/2015 5:22:41 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: thackney

Lot of ... Inflammatory ... vocabulary. Do you suppose the author has an agenda?


7 posted on 04/07/2015 5:37:10 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: thackney

Looks like a pretty slippery stretch of track, - if you ask me?


8 posted on 04/07/2015 5:39:51 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: thackney

Looks like Moses Lake, Wenatchee and Chelan are safe. That’s all I care about. ;-)


9 posted on 04/07/2015 5:42:59 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: thackney
They just need the right train conductors to keep things in order.

Great Movie btw...

10 posted on 04/07/2015 5:47:22 AM PDT by Vortex (Garbage In, Garbage Out)
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To: Vortex; All

“Emperor of the North”, I believe? Starring two of my favorite actors and veterans, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin.


11 posted on 04/07/2015 5:59:57 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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