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Old 07-06-2013, 10:03 PM
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Default Big Oil destroys small town. News outlets silent.

Runaway train carrying crude oil explodes near Maine border; Quebec town center in ruins, many people missing

LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — A driverless freight train carrying tankers of crude oil derailed at high speed and exploded into a giant fireball in the middle of a small Canadian town early Saturday, destroying dozens of buildings, killing at least one person and leaving an unknown number of people missing.

The disaster occurred shortly after 1 a.m. when the runaway train with 73 cars sped into Lac-Megantic, a picturesque lakeside town of about 6,000 people near the border with Maine, and came off the rails. Witnesses said the town center was crowded at the time.

Four of the pressurized tank cars caught fire and blew up in a fireball that mushroomed many hundreds of feet up into the air. The train was transporting crude oil from North Dakota to eastern Canada, likely to New Brunswick, news that is bound to revive questions about the safest way to carry the oil needed to service North America’s economies.

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/07/0...cts-in-quebec/

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Old 07-06-2013, 10:45 PM
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We had a plane crash in San Francisco today
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Old 07-07-2013, 03:58 AM
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"Big oil destroys small town"

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Thats my town!

shame what happened, send the next train!
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Bangor anyway...not quebec
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Old 07-07-2013, 12:40 PM
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Lol, blaming big oil.
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Old 07-07-2013, 02:33 PM
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They could always try to throw some paper towels on it.
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Old 07-07-2013, 04:00 PM
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Retarded title and OP. If it read, "Incapable Train Operator destroys small town", or something along those lines - I might agree. The fact that they were freighting crude oil has nothing to do with "big oil". It wasn't an Exxon Mobil train or anything like that.

Should we blame the plane crash that happened yesterday on big oil? I mean, they had Jet A on board, it must have been "big oil". Along those lines, every drunk driving accident that happens in the world MUST be due to "big oil", because those cars need gasoline to drive.
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Old 07-07-2013, 05:37 PM
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There was no human operator on board the train. Rail World Inc., the parent company who owns the train and the track, is a privately held leveraged buyout investment firm.

Who's your scapegoat now? Never mind, the invisible hand of the free market will fix it. Rail World will serve up some hapless middle manager and maybe one of their subsidiaries will declare bankruptcy after moving all assets to another subsidiary.
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