A Cautionary Tale for Oil-by-rail: the Lac-Mégantic Disaster Five Years Later

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By GuestOct 24, 2018, 6:15 pm390 pts
Read time: 7 mins By James Wilt, The Narwhal. Originally posted on The Narwhal. In this Q&A we speak with Bruce Campbell, author of a new book on the disaster that transformed a small Quebec town but left Canada’s neglected regulatory system largely unchanged It’s now been half a decade since…

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