Bakken Oil Trains - Glacier National Park update . . .

Now even the industry says the oil tankers are not safe for Bakken Oil . . .   What's it going to take? Is it going to take leveling East Glacier Park, or some other residential area before the system catches up with the oil boom?  What gives people?  

"None of the tank cars currently in service carrying Bakken crude oil is adequate for carrying that product, a rail industry representative testified Tuesday, but until new federal regulations are completed, the use of inadequate cars will continue."  

Read the entire story here in the, Olympian, 

http://www.theolympian.com/2014/04/22/3098058/tank-car-fleet-inadequate-for.html

Tony Bynum
www.tonybynum.com 

Oil Train Explosion - Could it Happen in Glacier National Park?

The truth is we all use oil. It also is true that trains are more efficient and economical than trucks when it comes to long hauling goods across our continent.

Accidents happen, no doubt! In this post I wanted to let people know that the same trains and cars recently involved in the explosion in Quebec that killed 5 while 40 are still missing, also run between the oil rich Bakken, though Glacier National Park, in route to refineries in the Puget Sound (related story).

Could the type of explosion, that happened in our neighboring country to the north happen in Glacier Park, East Glacier, West Glacier, or Browning?  Seems plausible to me . . . What's in place to stop it from happening here? As a member of the East Glacier Volunteer Fire Department I can not recall anyone from Burlington Northern ever talking to us about oil trains and emergency response . . .

 Here's to making sure that kind of accident does not happen again - anyplace!

Long "oil-train" hauling crude toward Glacier National Park and across the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Northwest Montana. ©tonybynum.com

Sincerely,
Tony Bynum