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New Rules May Make it Harder to Get Information on Bakken Oil Trains
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New Rules May Make it Harder to Get Information on Bakken Oil Trains
By Jim Spencer
Star Tribune
May 8, 2015 2:23pm
http://www.startribune.com/
new-rules-may-make-oil-train-info-harder-to-get/303001541/
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WASHINGTON New federal rules that aim to improve oil train safety may
actually make it harder for Minnesotans to learn about the highly
explosive Bakken crude rolling through their communities.
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Federal and state legislators worry that changes in mandatory railroad
reporting requirements will make it more difficult for the public to know
about oil train routes, numbers and load sizes.
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The new rules eliminate automatic notifications by railroads to statewide
authorities of oil train shipments and replace them with company points of
contact to answer questions.
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Railroads have traditionally been reluctant to reveal oil train
information to anyone other than emergency response personnel for what
they say are security reasons. BNSF, Minnesotas major Bakken crude hauler,
warns of real potential for the criminal misuse of this data if it is
generally accessible to the public.
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But many public officials see the railroads secrecy as a threat to public
safety in its own right.
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This is a giant step backwards, Minnesota state Rep. Frank Hornstein,
DFL-Minneapolis, said of the new disclosure rules. They say anyone can
call the railroads and get information. Im very concerned about disclosure
because the railroads had themselves exempted from the federal Community
Right to Know Act.
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U.S. senators, including Minnesota Democrat Al Franken, have sent a letter
to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx expressing concern that
ending automatic railroad reporting requirements could make it harder for
members of the public to learn about their exposure to oil trains and
other hazardous materials.
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The new rules represent a setback on disclosure requirements that could
hamper our first responders and negatively impact the safety of our
communities, the senators wrote to Foxx on Wednesday, in the wake of a
fiery Bakken crude oil train derailment in North Dakota.
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It was the 24th derailment in Canada and the United States since July
2013, when a Canadian oil train accident killed 47 people.
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We call upon you to issue an Emergency Order that improves the process for
providing detailed information on crude-by-rail movements and volumes to
first responders, shifts the onus for information sharing onto the
railroads and not communities, and allows for the continued public
availability of broader crude-by-rail data on movements and routes, the
senators wrote.
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