From: EcoNews
By Ben Jervey
As a direct result of the Bakken shale oil boom, more crude oil was
spilled from rail cars last year than in the previous four decades
combined. That’s according to a McClatchy analysis of federal data
from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration (PHMSA), which governs rail transport of liquid fuels
like crude.
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| The fireball that followed the derailment and explosion of two trains, one carrying Bakken crude oil, on Dec. 30, 2013, outside Casselton, ND. Photo credit: PHMSA |
The analysis revealed more than 1.15 million gallons of crude spilled in 2013, considerably more than the 800,000 gallons spilled from 1975 (when the government started collecting data on spills) to 2012.
The rail industry likes to boast a 99.99 percent success rate in
delivery shipments without incident, and that number remained consistent
in 2013, with 1.15 million of the roughly 11.5 billion gallons shipped by rail being spilled. What did change was the volume of actual crude being shipped by rail. MORE
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