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March 4th, 2014 | Tags: (AAR), American Association of Railroads, Anacortes City Council, Anacortes Mayor Laurie Gere, Bakken crude oil, DOT regulations, DOT's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Liz Lovelett, Mount Vernon Fire Chief Roy Hari, Oil boom, oil volatility, PHMSA, rail boom, rail car safety, Shell Anacortes, Skagit County, Skagit County bridges, Tesoro, Tesoro Anacortes, Tesoro Chief Executive Officer Greg Goff, Thomas Rizzo, tougher tank car standards, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, Wash. | Category: Feature, Legal, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
Bakken crude oil deliveries raise safety questions
By Daniel DeMay | Posted: Sunday, March 2, 2014 11:40 pm
An oil tanker train sits on the rail line that parallels Highway 20 west of Burlington in this photo taken in November 2013. Scott Terrell / Skagit Valley Herald
OLYMPIA [Wash.] — The issue of shipping oil by rail has gone from the background to the front burner almost overnight.
There are no […]
Continue reading The Bakken Oil Trains are Coming . . . IS SKAGIT READY?
February 2nd, 2014 | Tags: Advanced H2O, Advanced Refreshment, bottled water, Concrete, Jason Miller, LTI Inc., Niagara Bottling Company, Superior Spring, Wash. | Category: Feature, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | By Kimberly Cauvel | Jan. 28, 2014
CONCRETE — The town decided Monday to turn down Niagara Bottling’s interest in purchasing its pristine water, partly to protect the town’s ongoing relationship with another bottling company and partly because of a lack of detail in Niagara’s request.
An LTI Inc. driver fills two trailers with water from the town’s well in April 2011. LTI transports the water to Advanced H20 in Burlington for bottling. […]
Continue reading Concrete, Wash., Turns Down Bottler’s Request to Buy Town’s Water
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