No one killed and no environmental damage so the government will ignore this too...

Is the gov't supposed to get involved in every work related accident? Aside from the usual Worksafe BC involvement that is.

sure but it is CN....they seem to be ruled under no rules...my opinion

Great pay, dangerous work.

BC Rail was governed under Provincial Government regulations. Once they become part of the CN Rail system, they are governed by Federal Government legislation.

BC Rail had a long history of derailments and accidents, probably worse than CN.

The suggestion that BC Rail was a well run, profitable company, is a myth. It never was. In fact a Royal Commission in the 1970's concluded that it would never be a viable Railway. This for all intents and purposes turned out to be true.

As long as you overlook the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars put into this railway to keep it operating you can make a case for some credibility, however once you take that money into consideration, you have a **basket case**

If I remember correctly BC Rail made money only two years. All the othertimes it was a drain on the tax payers. Thus I don't mind the government selling it. I just don't think it should have been a 999 year lease. It should be a 60 years - 100 years.

BC Hydro,well,that had been our cash cow for forty years. Now we have to tweak its investments, build site C and live on cheap power.

I understand that if you were to add a few generators to the West Side of the WAC Bennet dam, you could generate as much power as you would get from site C. If this is so, then whats the problem, or do they want to do both????

BC Rail paid millions of dollars in "dividends" to their sole shareholder, the BC government, during the late ninties and early 2000's. Now, with coal booming and intermodal traffic up,where do you suppose those dividends go? My heart goes out to the young man who suffered the career ending injury.

"The suggestion that BC Rail was a well run, profitable company, is a myth. It never was. In fact a Royal Commission in the 1970's concluded that it would never be a viable Railway. This for all intents and purposes turned out to be true."

Thank you! This needed to be said as clearly as you have! Millions of dollars of dividends were supposedly paid to the owner (the government), but these dividends were nullified by the much greater amounts being paid by the same government out of general revenue to keep the railroad going (while its debt was continuously increasing) and therefore the whole effort was a money losing proposition. Simple mathematics.

No need to resort to rocket science to figure that out.

Begging your pardon, but whether BCR made money for itself or not it made money for the whole economy. Transportation is fundamental.

what does any of these comments got to do with the story?

You people are sick! A person was severely hurt and all you people can do is rant about a railway. Shame on all of you! My heart and prayers go out to the injured worker and his family.

Why don't you phone them and give your condolences. While you're by the phone, why not phone every family in the obituarys and tell them you understand their grief. May as well go to every newspaper in Canada and do those obits too. I don't know how you can live with all those tears bottled up. Someones going to die every day and most of us don't give a damn. Get used to it. Go to Libya and cry.