Paying to protect ourselves from North Dakota crude

[unhappycamper]

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/07/01/3269580/paying-to-protect-ourselves-from.html?sp=/99/447/



Tank cars loaded with crude oil head east at Hurricane, West Virginia, on May 11. Oil trains have become an increasingly common sight traveling through South Sound communities – and their numbers are projected to continue growing.

Paying to protect ourselves from North Dakota crude+
The News Tribune
July 1, 2014 Updated 20 hours ago

There’s good news about the explosive oil tankers rolling through our communities: We can finally find out what the bad news is.

Until Tuesday, the public knew only that the state had suddenly become a magnet for thousands of antique tanker cars, each filled with 680 barrels of volatile crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken region.

We’ve all seen them: huge black tanks topped with what look like black caps. Their design is a half-century old. The National Transportation Safety Board has been yelling for years about their tendency to split open and explode in crashes.

Federal regulators finally took the risk seriously after one oil train — more or less identical to countless others — exploded in Quebec last year and incinerated 47 human beings.

[misterhighwasted]

1. Bakken Oil: "The pipeline will carry more than twice as much North Dakota oil as the Keystone XL.."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112771396

I see there is a new pipeline proposed to move the oil out of the landlocked Bakken. Guess its the alternative to perhaps providing NEW & safer rail cars. Not like the oil co's. can't afford it.
Fact is that the Bakken oil has to be moved somehow. WOW just think of the benefits to this Nation if All those old rail cars were replaced with new ones, built here in the USA, by U.S. labor, & with U.S.Steel.
Suppose that idea would cut into "someones" profits though.
Yet they risk lives by using these old hazardous cars.