Saturday, June 25, 2016

Oil Trains To Resume Shipping Through Oregon Less Than 3 Weeks After Fiery Derailment

Less than three weeks after a fiery oil train derailment in Mosier, Oregon spilled 42,000 gallons of Bakken crude into the Columbia River and forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents and schoolchildren, Union Pacific — the company behind the derailment — announced that it would resume sending oil trains through the Columbia Gorge.

Union Pacific had temporarily stopped shipping oil by rail over the tracks where the derailment occurred, but had resumed shipping other cargo just days after the incident, even before the derailed train cars had been fully removed from the site of the accident....
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/06/23/3791724/union-pacific-resumes-oil-shipments-mosier-oregon/


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