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May 7th, 2014 | Tags: American Petroleum Institute, Anthony Foxx, Bakken oil, Deborah Hersman, DOT-111s, emergency order on oil trains, National Transportation Safety Board, nine oil train derailments, North Dakota, NTSB, oil shipped across Canada, oil shipped across U.S., oil train tank cars, oil trains, Quebec, safety advisory on tank cars voluntary, Sen. Maria Cantwell, train explosions, trains of 100 cars, U.S. crude oil production | Category: Feature, News, United States, Washington | Federal government issues emergency order requiring states be informed of oil train shipments
By JOAN LOWY
The Associated Press May 7, 2014 WASHINGTON The Transportation Department issued an emergency order Wednesday requiring that railroads inform state emergency management officials about the movement of large shipments of crude oil through their states and urged shippers not to use older model tanks cars that are easily ruptured in accidents, even at slow speeds.The emergency order requires that each railroad operating trains containing […]
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April 7th, 2014 | Tags: Albany County, Canadian railroads, Daniel McCoy, DOT-111s, Global Partners, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York, oil spill response, oil tank cars, Port of Albany, spill-response plans, Washington | Category: Community Rights, Feature, Letters to the Editor / Op-Ed, News, United States, Washington | Washington State should phase or repair some of the older oil tank cars known as DOT-111s, that do not provide necessary protections against derailments and explosions.
New York Times
APRIL 1, 2014
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Daniel McCoy, who manages Albany County and its port on the Hudson River, decided last month, that he had to do something about the dangers presented by the rumbling oil tank cars carrying crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken fields to […]
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March 7th, 2014 | Tags: 1 million barrels of crude daily, 13 percent of revenues, 141 defects, American Association of Railroads (AAR), American Association of Railroads recommended that the government not require tank car retrofits, American Railcar Leasing, Bakken crude oil, Berkshire Hathaway's 2012 Annual Report, biggest railroad player in the Bakken oil region, BNSF 13, BNSF Railway Company, Buffet's Union Tank Car Company (UTLX), CIT Rail, DOT-111s, exploding trains, Ford Pinto of rail cars, GATX Corp., General Electric Railcar Services, Marmon Group, Montana crude oil, North Dakota crude oil, Northwest's Pipeline on Rails, oil-by-rail volumes up 57 times, Procor Limited, Railway Supply Institute, Railway Supply Institute (RSI), retrofit rail cars, The Greenbrier Companies, Trinity Rail Group, Union Tank Car Company (UTLX), UTLX car, Warren Buffett | Category: Community Rights, Feature, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | Sightline Daily/News & Views for a Sustainable Northwest
Eric de Place and Rich Feldman on March 4, 2014 at 10:30 am
This post is 21 in the series: The Northwest’s Pipeline on Rails
“Look for the UTLX logo on tank cars when you watch trains roll by. As a Berkshire shareholder, you own the cars with that insignia. When you spot a UTLX car, puff out […]
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