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Swinomish Tribe Sues to Block Bakken Oil Trains
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Swinomish Tribe Sues to Block Bakken Oil Trains
A federal lawsuit filed by the Swinomish Indian tribe seeks to ban BNSF
Railway from transporting Bakken crude oil across tribal lands to the
Tesoro refinery in Anacortes.
By Hal Bernton
Seattle Times
Originally published April 7, 2015 at 8:37 pm
Updated April 9, 2015 at 9:19 am
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/
swinomish-sue-to-get-bakken-oil-trains-off-tribal-lands/
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The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community on Tuesday went to federal court to
block BNSF Railway from sending 100-car oil trains through reservation
lands, claiming the company is violating an easement that sharply
restricts rail traffic.
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The easement signed by the railways predecessor company in 1991 permits
only two trains a day of 25 cars or less from transiting the reservation.
It also calls for the railroad company to get permission from the tribe to
increase traffic.
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The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle asks the court to
permanently ban the railroad from shipping Bakken shale crude oil across
tribal land, asserting that the railroad never sought permission for the
oil trains.
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A deal is a deal, said Swinomish Chairman Brian Cladoosby in a statement
released Tuesday. Our signatures were on the agreement with BNSF, so were
theirs. So was the United States. But despite all that, BNSF began running
its Bakken oil trains across the reservation without asking, and without
even telling us.
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The Swinomish rail line that traverses tribal land on Fidalgo Island
enables trains to reach a Tesoro refinery in nearby Anacortes.
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A BNSF spokesman, in a statement released Tuesday said, We have received
the complaint and are reviewing it.
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The tribal lawsuit is part of an intensifying backlash in Washington and
elsewhere in North America against shipping Bakken shale crude from North
Dakota and Montana. Production from those fields has surged with the
development of new fracking techniques.
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Since 2013, a series of train derailments resulted in fiery explosions of
Bakken crude, with four of those accidents occurring since early February.
Bakken crude has a higher volatility than many other crudes, due to
elevated levels of gases such as ethane, propane and butane
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At Seattles Emergency Operations Center on Tuesday, Mayor Ed Murray, King
County Executive Dow Constantine and other officials joined U.S. Sen.
Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., to discuss threats posed by these accidents.
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