Minneapolis Star Tribune The deadly explosion of oil tank cars in Quebec highlights the risk of moving oil by train as the volume of crude shipped via U.S. rail lines continues to climb. The amount of U.S. crude oil traveling by rail has increased 23-fold — from 9,500 cars in ...
CBC.ca The sight of a locomotive hauling 100,000 litres of light crude oil through a small Canadian town like Lac-Mégantic was nearly unimaginable just a few years ago. But as North American oil production continues to outpace pipeline capacity, shipment by ...
Financial Post Oil deliveries by rail in the United States shot up 48% in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year, according to the U.S. Ene...
USA TODAY Backers says the Canada-to-U.S. pipeline, which would carry heavy crude oil known as tar sands from the Alberta region to the upper Midwest, would be a safer...
Press Herald After months of controversy over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the early-morning crash in Lac-Megantic drew national attention to the growing trend of sending crude oil by rail from North Dakota and Canada to refineries on the Eastern Seaboard.
Grand Forks Herald WILLISTON, N.D. – The Bakken crude involved in the deadly train derailment and explosion in Quebec represents only a fraction of the oil shipped by rail from North Dakota each day. About 675,000 barrels of Bakken crude leaves North Dakota rail ...
