New and Improved Bomb Trains? Oil Industry Plans to Ship Even More Dangerous Light Oils

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By Justin MikulkaJul 9, 2015, 3:26 pm117 pts
As oil train protests continue across North America to mark the two-year anniversary of the Lac-Megantic disaster, trouble is brewing in Texas. At the recent Crude Markets and Storage Summit energy conference in Texas, Pat McGannon, vice president of Rangeland Energy, made the following statement. “Rail…

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