Another Petroleum Train Explosion - Call your Congressmen!

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Interesting articles.

Bakken oil is (or was) being shipped by rail to Albany, and then shipped by tanker to Irving’s Saint John refinery. Remember the tanker grounding in the Hudson?

Advice to Obama: Approve the Keystone XL Pipeline now. Do NOT prove to Canada that the US is an unreliable energy trading partner and force them into the arms of the Chinese.

Advice to Stephen Harper: The States have proven to be an unreliable energy trading partner (Of course I’m only stating the obvious). Build your new Great Lakes tar sands oil export terminal at Thunder Bay (not in Superior) so that you can avoid nothing but more problems in the US.

A big portion of that Albany oil goes right down the river to bayway as well. Thoughts were smaller ships or ATB’s…the Meredith and Craig Reinauer have been on that run quite a bit as well, I think the Lincoln sea too.