Derailment Near McBride
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 @ 9:11 AM
McBride, B.C.- CN Crews have been working all night to clear a derailment at Lammings Mill near McBride.
Yesterday morning ,17 cars carrying metalurgical coal jumped the tracks. 16 of the cars are on their side, one remains upright. None of the coal made it into the Fraser River which is a fair distance from this particular stretch of rails.
There were no injuries.
The line is expected to be cleared later this morning.
Comments
Coal. Basically harmless. Now imagine that was crude oil in those cars.
Sober reminder for those who think that rail is better than pipelines.
Rail is much better than pipelines and far better than truck transport. Each car carrying hazardous goods can be isolated from other goods via buffer cars.
Each car is a sealed unit and crash tested for the goods it is intended to carry. You will always know where that car is in the consist and what and how much of a commodity it’s carrying. It will always get to it destination statistically.
Oil tank cars are inspected much more often than in service pipelines. If there is an incident it’s confined to a car or cars with a known amount of oil, not a flowing tap like a pipeline.
Would be nice if people think before shooting there mouth or fingers off with half assed guestimates.
Professional, when those cars derail and spill their load it won’t matter how many buffer cars you have. You are correct that each car is a sealed unit, sealed with about five or six bolts on the top of the hatch that could be sheared off easily in a derail. They may be inspected more than pipelines, I really don’t know how often pipelines are inspected, however in a derail an inspection means nothing. So explain how any of your half ass explanations will prevent oil spilling in a derail?
Profesional, Pipelines have fifty years of data on transporting commodities. It is without question the most environmentaly sound way to move oil and gas.
Take your BS to the next union meeting.
The real world ain’t on your side.
There is no way the bitumen should be allowed to cross BC and certainly no way it should be allowed to be shipped from the west coast without it being refined first. If China wants our oil they can have it for the going price of refined finished product. There is no price that I would risk the health and well being of BC for.
I see both rail and pipelines risky. Rail is 3 X more likely to spill but a pipeline is usually a bigger spill. Seems to me both are dangerous. I just don’t like it when comments try to ridicule other peoples opinions. Refinery for Ft. St. James. :)
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