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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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March 14th, 2014 | Tags: Columbia River, environmental and physical oil train safety, marine termianls on the Willamette River, Martha Richmond, oil train safety, oil trains, Port of Portland terminal | Category: Community Rights, Feature, News, Photo, Washington |
An aerial view of the Port of Portland’s Terminal 6, one of its four industrial marine terminals. (Randy L. Rasmussen/The Oregonian) By Rob Davis | rdavis@oregonian.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on March 04, 2014 at 2:05 PM, updated March 04, 2014 at 2:16 PM
Though developers are interested in building crude oil rail terminals in Portland, the Port of Portland said Tuesday it wouldn’t allow any to go forward until oil train safety concerns […]
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February 14th, 2014 | Tags: 100-car oil trains, Anacortes, Functions and Values of Wetlands, Improving Rail Integrity, JARPA, Keystone XL Project, March's Point Heron Colony, oil trains, Padilla Bay National Estuarine Reserve, PEIS, PHS Single Page Management Recommendations: Great Blue Heron, Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, Shell Oil, Shell PSR Mitigation Bank Use Plan, Shell SEPA Checklist, Track Safety Standards, Washington train disaster | Category: Action Alerts, Action Alerts, Community Rights, Feature, Grassroots Movements, Legal, Multimedia, News, Photo, Statewide, United States, Video, Washington | Tom Glade, President
Evergreen Islands, Anacortes, Wash.
PUBLIC COMMENT DEADLINES (MONDAY IS PRESIDENTS DAY!):
BY HAND: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 3:30 PM BY MAIL (ANACORTES PO): SATURDAY,FEBRUARY 15, 1:30pm BY INTERNET: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 4:30PM BY FAX: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 4:30PM (FAX: 360-336-9416)
Since Skagit County’s environmental review is only about potential environmental impacts
that occur on Shell’s property, the environmental impacts of oil train disasters en route will not
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