Oil train disaster in Quebec as oil shipments by rail in Canada rising at...
Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporting member of rabble.ca.In the wee hours of Saturday, July 6, just after midnight, a train hauling 73 cars of petroleum product...
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Oil shipments by rail in Canada rising at 'breakneck speed'
The transport of petroleum products by rail in Canada is skyrocketing. According to CBC News, the number of rail cars of petroleum transported in 2011 was 18,000. The following year, it was 83,500.Oil...
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Oil and blood in Lac-Mégantic
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 Oil and gas flow throughout the Canadian economy like blood through the body, powering the industries which depend on those resources. Please support our coverage of democratic...
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Profits over safety: 'Pipeline on rails' plans boom in Quebec
Monday, July 15, 2013 Railroad industry watchers have predicted even more exponential growth for the "pipeline on rails" boom in the shadow of the stalled Keystone pipeline plans. The boom in oil...
View ArticlePipeline vs. rail: A red herring
Ever since the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, there's a question which constantly comes up with regards to oil transportation. Are we better off transporting oil by rail or using pipelines? That's in fact a red...
View ArticleExploding oil trains: Coming to a Vancouver neighbourhood near you?
In its Jan. 2 edition, The Vancouver Sun published a rare look at oil train movement in the Vancouver Lower Mainland. The article was written by its excellent writer on natural resources industries,...
View ArticleHarper's dangerous petro-politicking with rail safety
There was more smoke and mirrors on Canada's rail tracks last week when the Harper Conservative government finally announced their long-awaited changes to rail safety 292 days after the preventable...
View ArticleSafety and climate concerns as oil-by-rail surges forward in North America
On April 23, Canada's minister of transport, Lisa Raitt, announced changes to railway transportation regulations in Canada that she says will make safe the rapidly growing transport of crude oil and...
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Oil-by-rail surges ahead, as do safety and climate concerns
Governments in the U.S. and Canada are dithering with promises of oil train safety as the volumes surge, ignoring the warnings of climate scientists to cut fossil fuel use.Safety and climate concerns...
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A number is never just a number: Lac-Mégantic crude
Wednesday, September 3, 201472Number of rail cars carrying Bakken crude oil that crashed into the Quebec community of Lac-Mégantic in July 2013, killing 47 people. (Source)85Percentage of tank cars...
View ArticleNewly elected mayor of Toronto says he wants oil trains out of his city
The Toronto Star has a front page story on Dec. 5 saying newly elected mayor John Tory wants trains carrying oil and other dangerous cargos through his city to be rerouted through less populated...
View ArticleDespite settlement, chief culprits of Lac-Mégantic disaster still insist 'It...
An initial financial compensation agreement for many of the victims of the 2013 oil train disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, has been reached with some of the oil and transportation companies (and their...
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More than 1,000 march in Lac-Mégantic to demand rail safety and end to...
Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporter of rabble.ca.More than 1,000 people marched through the streets of Lac Mégantic, Quebec on October 11 against the threatened...
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Oil profits, pipelines and the human cost of regulatory capture
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