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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: 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 […]
Continue reading Albany’s Perilous Oil Boom
March 14th, 2014 | Tags: Bakkan crude through downtown Seattle, eight to 21 trains per week, Mike O'Brien, oil train resolution, oil train safety, oil trains environment, Seattle City Council, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, Seattle oil trains, Sightline, Washington State oil trains | Category: Feature, Legal, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | KPLU 88.5
March 10, 2014
By MARTHA KANG
Seattle has joined Spokane and Bellingham in passing a resolution to restrict oil shipments by rail until further review.
The Seattle City Council unanimously passed the resolution co-sponsored by council member Mike O’Brien and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray.
File image Credit Matthew Brown / AP Photo
The resolution urges Gov. Jay Inslee and other state regulators to refrain from issuing permits for projects that would increase […]
Continue reading Seattle City Council Urges Gov To Stop Issuing Permits For Oil Trains
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: 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 […]
Continue reading Port of Portland Says No Oil Train Projects Until Safety Concerns are Addressed
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: 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 […]
Continue reading The Man Behind Exploding Trains–Pulling Back the Curtain on Warren Buffett’s Role
February 24th, 2014 | Tags: 160-foot water tower, Bar RR Ranches LLC, Bartonville, Cross Timbers Water Supply Corp, Exxon Mobil Corp. Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson, Exxon Mobil Corp. hydraulic fracturing, fracking, Mayflower, Michael Witten, outside Dallas, President Patrick McDonald, Rex Tillerson, Texas, Tillerson lawsuit, US House Majority Leader Dick Armey | Category: Feature, Health, Multimedia, News, Other States, Photo, United States, Washington | Bartonville : TX : USA | Feb 22, 2014 at 7:22 AM PST
BY JOHNTHOMAS DIDYMUS Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson: No fracking near my home
Exxon Mobil Corp. Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson is an ardent proponent of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), but only when it isn’t in his backyard.
According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Tillerson is one […]
Continue reading Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson Joins Lawsuit to Stop Fracking Activity Near His Home
February 18th, 2014 | Tags: America's oil boom, Bakken oil, crude oil moving by rail, freight trains hauling oil, Lac-Megantic, Montana and North Dakota Bakken oil, oil train derailments, Quebec | Category: Health, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press
Billings, Mont. –At least 10 times since 2008, freight trains hauling oil across North America have derailed and spilled significant quantities of crude, with most of the accidents touching off fires or catastrophic explosions.
FILE – In this Dec. 30, 2013, file photo, a fireball goes up at the site of an oil train derailment in Casselton, N.D. Trains carrying millions of gallons of explosive liquids, including crude oil, are likely to continue rolling […]
Continue reading Railroad Accidents Stir Worries About Crude Transport
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, 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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Continue reading Proposed Shell/Equilon Oil Train Terminal, Anacortes
December 5th, 2013 | Tags: drinking water, drinking water standards, EPA drinking water, health effects of vinyl chloride, plastics factories, plastics in wells, toxic substances in my drinking water, vinyl chloride | Category: Feature, News, United States | United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
EPA regulates vinyl chloride in drinking water to protect public health. Vinyl chloride may cause health problems if present in public or private water supplies in amounts greater than the drinking water standard set by EPA.
What is vinyl chloride? Uses for vinyl chloride. What are vinyl chloride’s health effects? What are EPA’s drinking water regulations for vinyl chloride? How does vinyl chloride get into my drinking water? Continue reading Plastic Factories a Major Source of Vinyl Chloride in Drinking Water
December 4th, 2013 | Tags: 1996 agreement, 2001, 2001 Instream Flow Rule, April 14, City of Anacortes, Commissioner Sharon Dillon, Department of Ecology and Skagit County, Jacque Klug, John Roozen, Kyle Brown, Loranger, rural landowners, Skagit landowners, Skagit PUD, Skagit River Basin, state Department of Ecology, Supreme Court ruling, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Tom Loranger, water meeting | Category: Feature, Legal, News, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
By Rachel Lerman | Posted: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 8:00 am
MOUNT VERNON — State officials urged Skagit landowners Tuesday to “start fresh” and not rehash the past fights over water rights as the state searches for solutions.
“We’ve lost 12 years. And now we’re back to where we started from,” said Tom Loranger, program manager of the water resources program at the state Department of Ecology. “My hope is that we can start…with […]
Continue reading Wash. Dept. of Ecology Seeks to Ease Tensions at Water Meeting
December 2nd, 2013 | Tags: agriculture, berry grower, Cherry Point, fish dying in the Nooksack River, Gateway Pacific Terminal coal export pier, Jay Manning, Jim Bucknell, Lummi Natural Resources Department, Marty Maberry, Michael Mirande, Nooksack Indian Tribe, Nooksack River, pumping from wells, Randy Kinley, Salmon, Whatcom County Factories, Whatcom County Farms, Whatcom County's water rights disputes | Category: Feature, News, United States, Washington | BY JOHN STARK
THE BELLINGHAM HERALD, June 3, 2013
Dan Kruse, left, and Robert Teton of the Lummi Natural Resources Department, use a net to try to catch juvenile salmon to count on Feb. 15, 2012 at Marine Park in Bellingham. The department counts juvenile salmon around Bellingham Bay about once every two weeks. The Lummi and Nooksack tribes have asked federal agencies to file a lawsuit on their behalf to help determine the amount […]
Continue reading Wash. Water Dispute Clouds Future for Whatcom County Farms, Factories
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