Protesters chain themselves to Kinder Morgan fence to oppose crude-by-rail
Richmond Standard
note: this appears to be a Chevron website, but I couldn't find the story anywhere else
Protesters chained themselves to a fence at the Kinder Morgan rail terminal in Richmond Thursday morning in order to oppose the company’s transport of crude oil by rail.The protest comes a day before the San Francisco Superior Court is scheduled to hold a hearing on a lawsuit challenging Kinder Morgan’s recently approved permit to transfer crude oil from rail cars to trucks......
....As of about 9:30 a.m., the protest had been peaceful and no arrests had been made, Hill said. On Twitter, supporters claimed the protest had caused Kinder Morgan to halt some of its transport activities. read more here
Dangerous crude could still travel in misclassified tank cars, TSB says
Kim Mackrael and Grant Robertson — The Globe and Mail Sep. 04 2014
In a recent letter to Transport
Canada, the Transportation Safety Board said new requirements to test
oil don’t explicitly address its “variability,” including the fact that
different products are sometimes blended together before they are
shipped........read more here
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