NTSB: Oil Train Crash Risks 'Major Loss of Life'

[elleng]

Source: nyt/ap

Federal accident investigators are warning that a "major loss of life" could result from an accident involving the increasing use of trains to transport large amounts of crude oil. They recommend a series of safety measures.

The National Transportation Safety Board took the unusual step of issuing its recommendations jointly with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/01/23/us/politics/ap-us-oil-trains-safety.html?hp&_r=0

[blm]

1. In other words - Better to build pipeline (as in Keystone XL)

Wouldn't put it past them to have sabotaged those trains in the first place.

[SamKnause]

2. Trains

Sorry, but there will be no funds available for implementing safety regulations.

Death and destruction are the cost of doing business, collateral damage so to speak.

The corporations, (that our "esteemed Supreme Court declared as people) do not care about loss of life, maiming, sickness, injury, or death.

MONEY, MONEY, and more MONEY is all that sticks to their radar.

Killing people and fucking up the planet should be the motto of our "job creators".

[elleng]

3. They can be required to implement safety regulations,

and are so for many. Of course demanding such requires political decisions. We the People should demand these requirements, and enforcement by the Transportation department.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. From the NTSB website

NTSB calls for tougher standards on trains carrying crude oil

January 23

The National Transportation Safety Board today issued a series of recommendations (see Safety Recommendation Letters R-14-001-003 and R-14-004-006) to the Department of Transportation to address the safety risk of transporting crude oil by rail. In an unprecedented move, the NTSB is issuing these recommendations in coordination with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
....

The NTSB issued three recommendations to the Federal Railroad Administration and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the first would require expanded hazardous materials route planning for railroads to avoid populated and other sensitive areas.

The second recommendation to FRA and PHMSA is to develop an audit program to ensure rail carriers that carry petroleum products have adequate response capabilities to address worst-case discharges of the entire quantity of product carried on a train.

The third recommendation is to audit shippers and rail carriers to ensure that they are properly classifying hazardous materials in transportation and that they have adequate safety and security plans in place.
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Office of Public Affairs
490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
Washington, DC 20594
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[Javaman]

5. Water carrier for keystone. nt

[Nihil]

6. Yep.

NTSB are responsible (in part) for the safety of oil trains.

They have nothing at all to do with the safety of oil pipelines.

Hence, NTSB is 100% behind Keystone as the inevitable failures will not
reflect badly on NTSB whereas the inevitable failures of oil trains do.

No chance of any "big picture" appreciation from them.