tar sands oil

As you read this, train cars are crisscrossing the nation carrying a highly volatile form of crude oil. Known as “bomb trains,” these cars have a history of devastating explosions – threatening lives and waterways – when involved in any kind of an accident.

Our report, Deadly Crossing: Neglected Bridges & Exploding Oil Trains, details the danger. The report includes the findings of a grassroots network of advocates who conducted inspections across the United States and identified significant areas of concern with 114 railway bridges along known and potential routes of explosive oil trains.

What they found should alarm us all.

The condition of our nation’s rail infrastructure is dismal. And, according to a study by our report partners, ForestEthics, it threatens the lives of more than 25 million Americans who live within one mile of an oil train route, known as the bomb train blast zone. You may be one of them.

Help us take the findings of this new report to the federal government and demand that bomb trains stop endangering lives and waterways.

Filed under Accidents, bomb trains, Community Impacts, Environment, Infrastructure, Water Tagged with Albany. NY, bakken oil, bomb trains, fossil fuel, NY, Riverkeepers, tar sands oil, transportation

Rail oil shipping raises safety concerns in Albany – News Local Massachusetts – Boston.com

February 17, 2014

Rail oil shipping raises safety concerns in Albany – News Local Massachusetts – Boston.com.

Filed under Transportation Tagged with Albany, crude, Global, NY, tar sands oil, trains

DEC’s Public Meeting on Crude & Tar Sand (transport thru Port of Albany)

February 6, 2014

Urgent! Attend the DEC’s Public Information Meeting on Crude and Tar Sands Oil Transport.

Most New Yorkers are unaware that the Hudson River is already the country’s largest Superfund site. The last thing we need is to be threatened with another toxic spill. Yet New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is throwing caution to the wind by allowing Global Terminal, LP to transport crude oil and possibly tar sand oil via rail and by ship on the Hudson River.

You are cordially invited to join a working group, including members of Hudson Riverkeeper, NRDC, Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter, Environmental Advocates and PAUSE (People in Albany United for Safe Energy) to Flip the Switch from toxic combustible crude and tar sands oil to truly safe and sustainable energy.

Speak out against the DEC’s outrageous conduct. The DEC is violating our due process rights and ignoring the precautionary principle that is vital to pubic safety.

More info here:

▶ Crude by Rail – Albany NY’s Oil by Train Risk – YouTube 1.26.14

Questions of oil tanker safety from Albany danger zone – Times Union

1.24.14

A bid to open Albany up to tar sands oil | Capital New York 12.20.13

Save the date – Wednesday, February, 12, 2014 @ 6pm.

Please attend DEC’s public information meeting on Global Terminal’s expansion project. The meeting will be held at Giffen Memorial Elementary School: 274 South Pearl Street, Albany, NY 12202.

NYS DEC has extended the comment period to April, 2, 2014. Mail or email comments to:

Karen M. Gaidasz, 1130 N. Westcott Road, Schenectady, NY 12306, or r4dep@gw.dec.state.ny.us.

Thanks for taking action on this critical issue.

Filed under DEC, events, Transportation Tagged with Albany, DEC, Global, Hudson River, NY, railroads, tar sands oil, transportation