A runaway train? Really? There have been some similar incidents over the past decade in the USA. Why hasn't Canada learned from the USA tragedies.
I believe the railroad has an obligation to serve the people now with financial compensation for their losses. That is completely obvious the victims of this crime need relief from the companies willful acts.
The railroad company needs to begin compensation to the people, need to rebuild the destroyed infrastructure and bring to trial those responsible for this crime. I am more than confident there are environmental fines as well. The picture to the right is of the LA derailment in 2003. There were two other incidents I know of that occurred in the USA during the years of Bush/Cheney. They were all runaway trains. There were no deaths or infrastructure damage in the USA.
You mean to tell me this incident in Canada ten years later didn't learn from these tragedies? That being the fact, especially since these rail cars contained flammable materials. There needs to be people held responsible for this disaster.
I am quite confident there was foul play, otherwise, there needed to be more regulation to this potential. If the railways were not regulated more after THREE incidents in the USA, the people within a democracy are victims of their politicians.
Runaway trains are completely preventable.
July 11, 2013
By Intelligencer Journal
...To recap: (click here) The accident occurred early Saturday morning when an unattended 73-car train carrying an estimated 42,000 barrels of crude oil somehow rolled downhill and crashed in the community of 6,000 near the western Maine border. The accident devastated the center of Lac Megantic and killed at least 15 people. Dozens more remain missing.
The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic train was carrying crude oil from North Dakota eastward across Canada. In the absence of a pipeline linking Canadian and northern U.S. oil operations to U.S. refineries and ports, much of the oil is being shipped by rail. The number of oil shipments by rail has grown 20-fold in recent years. That's great for U.S. and Canadian railroads but is a concern for people who live near those routes.
Some of that crude oil is now being transported along Norfolk Southern's Port Road that traces the Susquehanna River from northwestern Lancaster County to Perryville, Md. Mile-long trains — some pulling as many as 118 tank cars filled with crude oil from Canada and the Bakken shale fields in Montana and North and South Dakota — routinely travel the Port Road en route to ports in Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania....
