By Ernest Scheyder Oct 27 (Reuters)
- North Dakota plans to issue new rules for the treatment of
crude oil on Nov. 13, with regulators leaning away from any requirement
specifying whether volatile components should be removed at the well site or a
regional hub, so long as they are
removed before transport, a state official
said on Monday....
...The North Dakota Industrial Commission, the state's main oil
regulator, plans to issue the standards at its November hearing,
and these rules likely will take effect on Jan. 1.....
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A coalition of environmental groups and Albany residents
filed a legal petition last week seeking a ban on older model rail tanker cars
carrying volatile crude oil from North Dakota to the Port of Albany, citing
their history of rupturing and exploding in a series of catastrophic
derailments.
The petition, filed by a group represented by Earthjustice,
asks Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens to issue
an order prohibiting receipt and storage of crude in DOT-111 tank cars at the
port, which has become a hub for rail shipments of North Dakota's Bakken crude
bound for coastal refineries.....
....The petition argues that federal transportation law
wouldn't apply in this case because the abatement order would be against the
two companies receiving the oil and transloading it onto Hudson River barges,
not against the rail carriers. ...
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