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New testing standards set for crude being transported by rail in the U.S.

September 26, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

The oil industry’s lead trade group has come up with new standards for testing and classifying crude shipped by rail. As with earlier orders from the American government, the industry’s standards generally leave it to individual companies to decide how often to test crude in order to gauge its danger. Hazardous-materials shipments are supposed to […]

Filed Under: International, News, Safety Tagged With: American Petroleum Institute, Association of American Railroads, crude shipped by rail, oil industry, trains, U.S. Department of Transportation

Comment: Pick your choice for crude transport – pipeline, train, truck or ship

August 11, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

Crude oil is moving around the world, around North America, around pristine wilderness, around our cities and towns. It’s going to keep moving, so what is the safest way to move it? The short answer is: truck worse than train worse than pipeline worse than boat (Oilprice.com). But that’s only for human death and property […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: Alberta, Association of American Railroads, barrels, Canada, Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, Congressional Research Service, contaminated, crude oil, energy boom, gallons, Keystone XL, Lac-Megantic, North America, oil, oil spill, pipeline, Quebec, rail accidents, rail cars, ship, spill, tanker, The Fraser Institute, Trucking, United States

Time to phase out old rail cars

July 30, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

The Daily Journal is reporting the oil industry and the railroads are giving U.S. regulators a plan to phase out a type of older tank car connected to fiery accidents, including the one a year ago in Quebec that killed 47 people. The publisher of the story was talking on a condition of anonymity to […]

Filed Under: Canada, International, News Tagged With: American Petroleum Institute, Association of American Railroads, derailments, Lac Megantic Quebec, railroads, tank car, train, Transport Canada, U.S. Transportation Department

Comment: Fox Guarding Henhouse

July 28, 2014 by Rob Hislop Leave a Comment

How did it get missed for the last ten years?” That was the question Deborah Hersman, chair of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), posed to a panel of industry representatives back in April about how the rail industry had missed the fact that Bakken oil is more explosive than traditional crude oil. “How do we […]

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: American Petroleum Institute, Association of American Railroads, Bakken crude oil, Department of Transportation, DOT, Federal Railroad Administration, Lac-Megantic, National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, Safety, U.S., White House

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