It is nice and everything to clean up after yourself, but a mess of this magnitude cannot just be cleaned up. As you can see from the list of things they have to do to try to recover, it would be much better for the environment if this accident had not occurred.

Furthermore, no matter how hard they work to “clean it up,” it will never be as it was before. You cannot remove all that oil, and you cannot undo the damage that has been done to the atmosphere. And this is just one of many accidents that has happened and will happen to us if we keep on running this highly flammable, highly toxic substance over rails that are 100 years old.

Pipelines may be a better way, but they are not without risk to the environment, either.

Anyone who thinks he/she is not an environmentalist, try living without clean air and water. Just try it. Living without fossil fuel energy, what happens? Oh, no, we might have to start conserving and shift over the renewables, but at least we will have water to drink and air to breathe. We have to stop this madness now. We are running out of time.

We must rally for a moratorium on oil freight trains…period….!!!!

UPDATE 3-Canadian Nat’l crude oil train derailed in Ontario, fire reported

By Jeffrey Hodgson, Reuters News Service, March 7, 2015

Ontario, Canada – A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying crude oil has derailed near the Northern Ontario community of Gogama, with the crew reporting a fire but no injuries, the company said on Saturday.

A preliminary assessment indicated a bridge over a waterway had been damaged and a number of tank cars were in the waterway after the derailment, Canadian National’s second in the region in just three days and third in less than a month.

Local media said the derailment had forced the closure of a nearby highway and photos showing clouds of black smoke were posted online.

The railway did not immediately say which type of crude oil the train was carrying, but noted the tank cars were the newer Casualty Prevention Circular 1232 model, which are widely regarded as better protected against damage than older types.

Regulators and operators have criticized earlier DOT-111 cars for being prone to puncture. The CPC 1232′s new safety specifications include a thicker tank, top-fitting protection and a pressure relief system.

The incident comes after another derailment on March 5 blocked Canadian National’s main line in northern Ontario.

CN said the latest derailment happened two miles (3.2 km northwest of Gogama, which is some 600 km north of Toronto. It occurred just before 3 a.m. ET/0800 GMT on Saturday and is affecting rail traffic running between Toronto and Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The railway said both westbound and eastbound traffic on the line was obstructed and could be delayed by 24 hours or more.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said it was deploying a team of investigators and noted the accident was about 37 km from the site of a February 14 accident involving a CN crude oil train.

A boom in oil shipments by rail and a spate of derailments across North America have put heightened focus on rail safety. The U.S. Department of Transportation said in February derailments involving crude oil and ethanol in the United States would cost more than $18 billion over the next 20 years.

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