[Newsbot]

Title: BNSF oil train derails in rural Illinois; two cars aflame
Category: Business
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2015-03-06 11:51:05
Canadian

[N_Fiddledog]

"It was also not immediately clear where the train originated or where it was heading. Chicago, which is 160 miles east, is a major rail hub for shipments from both North Dakota and Canada's oil sands...

The accident is just the latest involving oil trains in the United States and Canada."

[BartSimpson]

Obama will still oppose Keystone.

[stratos]

Thanks Obama.

[DanSC]

We can't have massive amounts of crude rolling through our towns and villages in containers moving at high speed. Better to move the oil through one stationary container, such as a tube, in areas away from municipalities.

[Zipperfish]

Dear US

It's either a pipeline up the wazoo or exploding trains.

Love Stephen Harper

[Thanos]

If those people getting vapourized at Lac Megantic wasn't sufficient to change the anti-pipeline mentality then nothing will. One could go kaboom in downtown Chicago and shred a thousand people and it still wouldn't make a dent in that insipid ideology.

[ShepherdsDog]