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April 20th, 2014 | Tags: Agriculture and trains, Amtrak's Empire Builder, barley and corn unmarketable, BNSF, BNSF rail traffic spiked, Bob Wisness, Canadian Pacific Railway, crops in piles on the ground, farmers in jeopardy, fuel stocks low at electric power plants, Grain and manufacturing taking a side track to crude oil, Grain on trains, Joseph Szabo, Keith Creel, Manufacturers and trains, North Dakota, North Dakota Bakken shale, North Dakota Grain Growers Association, rail service deteriorated, strained rail capacity in the Midwest, Texas depends on coal by rail, Texas Municipal Power Agency, wheat, Wyoming's Powder River Basin | Category: Feature, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | BY CURTIS TATE McClatchy Washington Bureau April 10, 2014 A train carrying tanker cars filled with crude oil passes through St. Paul, Minnesota, on February 27, 2013. The crude oil is loaded in at terminals in North Dakota and Canada and taken to refineries in the east. JIM GEHRZ — Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT
WASHINGTON — Grain producers, manufacturers and coal shippers told federal regulators Thursday that rail service has deteriorated drastically in the nation’s midsection in recent […]
Continue reading Crude Oil is Displacing Other Commodities on Trains, Critics Charge
March 28th, 2014 | Tags: billion plastic bottle water industry, American Beverage Association, bank sale of plastic water bottles, bottled water, coca cola, David Chiu, Joshua Arce, Pepsi Cola, plastic water bottles, Recology, San Francisco | Category: Events, Feature, Legal, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | MARCH 5, 2014 San Francisco Examiner JOSHUA SABATINI
Chiu addressing the media
Plastic containers will be forbidden to be sold on public property in move toward zero-waste goal
San Francisco became the first major city Tuesday to ban the sale of plastic water bottles on public property, building on a nationwide effort to curb the billion-dollar industry.
The nine-months-in-the-making proposal by Board of Supervisors President David Chiu navigated through a number of challenging issues, from the city’s drinking […]
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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 […]
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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: 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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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
March 4th, 2014 | Tags: 100-car oil train, Anacortes refineries, Bakken crude, Bakken oil trains, BP, Burlington, Burlington Fire Department, Burlington fire trucks, Carolyn Gastellum, Cherry Point to China, College Way, Emergency response teams from Skagit County, Emergency response to Bakken oil trains, ForestEthics, four refineries in northern Puget Sound, Gateway Pacific Terminal, Hoag Road, life safety first priority, Matt Krough, Mount Vernon Fire Chief Roy Hari, Mount Vernon Mayor Jill Boudreau, Mount Vernon traffic, North Dakota's Bakken fields, oil from North Dakota to Skagit County, oil train EIS, Padilla Bay, Phillips 66, Protect Whatcom, Puget Sound, Riverside Drive, Shell EIS, Shell Oil Anacortes, Skagit and Whatcom Counties, Skagit County, Skagit County planners, Skagit residents, Skagit River, Skagit River 600 feet from railroad tracks, Swinomish Channel, Terry Weschler, Tesoro EIS, Tesoro Oil Anacortes | Category: Feature, Legal, Multimedia, News, Photo, United States, Washington | Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
By Kimberly Cauvel | Posted: Sunday, March 2, 2014 11:30 pm
Colette Weeks
A train pulls tanks of crude oil toward the refineries in Anacortes in August.
Traffic is blocked at three major intersections in Mount Vernon, and a fire is burning downtown.
Mount Vernon and Burlington fire trucks and ambulances dispatched to the scene determine alternate routes because a 100-car oil train is blocking crossings at […]
Continue reading Oil Trains Coming: Local Officials Prepare for the Worst
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 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 […]
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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 […]
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February 14th, 2014 | Tags: 000 barrels per day, 890, Brian Cladoosby, Canada's National Energy Board, EarthJustice.org, Kinder Morgan Transmountain pipeline project, Lummi Nation, Musqueam, Salish Sea, Squamish, Suquamish Tribe, Swinomish Tribe, Tsleil-Waututh Nations, Tulalip Tribes | Category: Feature, Multimedia, News, Photo, Rights of Nature, United States, Washington | Skagit County, Washington
Skagit Valley Herald staff | Posted: Friday, February 14, 2014 9:00 am
The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community will oppose the proposed Kinder Morgan Transmountain pipeline project, it announced Thursday.
The tribe said it will oppose the project before Canada’s National Energy Board, along with the Tulalip Tribes, Lummi Nation, Suquamish Tribe and the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Canada.
“Over the last 100 years, our most sacred site, the Salish Sea, has been deeply impacted by […]
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