BNSF oil train derails in rural Illinois; two cars aflame

"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."

Obama will still oppose Keystone.

Thanks Obama.

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.

Dear US

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

Love Stephen Harper

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.