Large Explosion Reported After Train Carrying Petroleum Collides With 18-wheeler in Texas

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Yessir, pipelines are dangerous.....gotta fight global warming....

Large Explosion Reported After Train Carrying Petroleum Collides With 18-wheeler in Texas

By Jack Phillips
February 23, 2021 Updated: February 23, 2021

A train carrying petroleum collided with an 18-wheeler truck in Texas, officials said on Tuesday.

The collision caused an explosion and fire. Officials labeled the crash and apparent oil spill as a HAZMAT situation, according to the Cameron Police Department, reported Fox News.

Elaborating, Milam County Judge Steve Young told KBTX that the crash occurred before 7 a.m. local time and several agencies are on the scene. Young said that 14 train cars derailed due to the collision but stated that it is not a HAZMAT situation.

The truck driver and train conductor both survived the crash without major injuries, officials told KXXV.

According to a local radio station, Cameron Fire Chief Henry Horelica stated that no residences have caught fire, adding that at least two structures were close to caching on fire.

“Evacuations are mostly complete and fire crews expect to remain on site the rest of today and into the night. HAZMAT teams are on their way from College Station and Temple,” the station wrote on Facebook, citing Horelica.

Photos and video footage show a significant fire with billowing black smoke following the incident.

Other details were not provided about the crash. Cameron is located about 70 miles northeast of Austin.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/large-expl...ng-2021-02-23-1
 
Yeah pipe line is alot more dangerous and harder on the environment.Just like this idotic green deal and Paris accord does a lot more harm to the environment than it will ever fix...Just ask Texas about what they think about solar and wind power,let them show you there 6 figure utility bills...
 
But pipelines would take a lot of money away from Warren Buffet's railroad line and the politicians wouldn't get their kickbacks.
 
Originally Posted By: SixsixtyMagsWait until a train derailments carrying oil goes into a major river system, then watch the finger pointing begin!


Yep; it'll be Trump's fault fo sho!
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hm
 
We just need to be rid of oil, then we wouldn't need pipelines or trucks or trains to haul it!

One way or another, you will be forced to go "green"!
 
Yep, $1.00 more than last summer here. I brought that up tonight in a conversation with a democrat. She changed the subject. They can't admit that they were wrong.
We haven't seen anything yet.
I hope all the brainwashed democrats get exactly what they think that they wanted. I just don't know who they will blame but it sure won't be themselves.
 
ya... its about $0.65/gal more here than it was a few weeks ago. $2.10-$2.20 in jan and now $2.65-$2.85 now

within the last several months $100 on a fuel card went from 2 fillups and most of a 3rd tank to two fill ups and not even a part of a can. a bad week with a lot of driving can cost me upwards of $300 now
 
I can tell you a lot of railroaders hate oil tankers. It causes a lot of stress because we all know the consequences of any kind of derailment.
 
It makes total sense that those who claim to be protecting the environment from emissions would shut down a pipeline with no emissions & force the oil to be moved by road & rail via burning fossil fuels.
 
Originally Posted By: Stu FarishIt makes total sense that those who claim to be protecting the environment from emissions would shut down a pipeline with no emissions & force the oil to be moved by road & rail via burning fossil fuels.


no less shut down a pipeline from an ally to buy oil from a country that prays for us to blow up and chants death to America on their TV stations.
 
It does occur to me that the biden family if pretty heavily invested in oil. Overseas, not here, though. Should be no surprise that he's making moves to hurt us, since it helps them & helping them is good for the bidens.
 

Opinion, United States Of Common Sense

The Bomb Trains

by Charles "Sam" Faddis January 26, 2021


As promised, Joe Biden has issued an executive order revoking the March 2019 permit for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. That project, for the time being anyway, is dead. Joe has fulfilled his pledge to those who think we can run our economy without fossil fuels. Workers are already being fired, and energy costs will inevitably begin to rise.

Let’s look at another less discussed implication of this disastrous decision, however. Let’s look at how many people Joe just condemned to death.

The AOC’s of the world assume that cancelling the permit to allow the construction of the pipeline means that the oil it would carry will no longer be produced and no longer reach market. That is not at all what it means. The oil will still find its way to refineries, but now instead of being pumped safely and securely in a pipeline, it will be carried by other means.

That means mostly by train, and trains derail. When they derail, especially if they are carrying the particularly volatile Bakken Crude Oil, the consequences can be deadly.

On July 6, 2013 a 73-car freight train carrying Bakken Crude derailed in the remote Canadian town of Lac-Megantic. Multiple tank cars caught fire and exploded in the center of the small community. Forty-two people were killed. More than thirty buildings were destroyed. All but three of the thirty-nine surviving buildings had to be demolished. The blast radius from the explosions was one kilometer.

If there is an upside to that terrible story, it is that the derailment happened in a small town with a limited population. The trains that carry Bakken Crude don’t just run through rural areas, however. They go through the heart of our biggest cities. And, many of them are much, much bigger than the 73-car train that blew up in Lac-Megantic.

Changes in the way oil is now shipped have contributed to the danger. Crude oil used to be carried on the rails “by manifest,” that is, on trains with a variety of other cargoes. Today trains typically carry only one cargo, the highly volatile Bakken Crude, which reacts much more like gasoline than crude oil in a derailment. These trains usually have in excess of 80 cars. When a 109-car Bakken Crude train jumped the rails in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, in 2015 the entire town had to be evacuated.

Twenty-five million Americans live within a mile of a train track on which Bakken Crude bomb trains travel. Virtually every major city in the nation, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, has such trains running on tracks right through the heart of heavily populated areas. In 2015 a three-locomotive, 111-car CSX freight train came off the tracks while traveling through Philadelphia. Fortunately, the cars stayed upright, and no crude oil was lost. There was, through sheer luck, no explosion. There could just as easily have been a massive explosion in the heart of one of our great cities.

The reality of the danger posed by the transport of Bakken Crude by train is terrifying. If the oil catches fire and explodes what results is devastation. The fire is uncontrollable. All firefighters can do is evacuate the area and wait for the fire to burn itself out.

As Fairfield, Iowa, Fire Chief Scott Vaughan described in 2014, “If there was a spill or a fire, our big thing would be containment and evacuation,” he said. “We train for it, but training and actually doing are two different things. Very simply, there is no controlling an oil train fire.”

Just as scary is the ease with which such an eventuality can occur. If an oil train derails at any speed over ten miles an hour a dozen or more cars typically come off the tracks, decouple, and are thrown from their wheels. If tank cars are punctured, the explosive Bakken Crude will generally either self-ignite or be ignited by some other source. You don’t have to imagine a train racing out of control to have this happen. This could happen anytime, anywhere.

In December 2013, a westbound train carrying grain derailed in Casselton, North Dakota. One car fell on the eastbound tracks. Two minutes later a crude oil train traveling on the eastbound tracks struck that car. Eighteen tank cars were ruptured releasing 450,000 gallons of Bakken Crude.
First responders to the scene set up a command post a quarter mile from the crash. Almost immediately they had to move further away due to the intense heat. The Department of Transportation’s Emergency Guidebook says emergency responders to a tank car disaster should evacuate everyone within a half mile in all directions. That is for a single-car wreck.

No attention is paid to directions for fighting the fire. In fact, federal guidelines say quite clearly, “In the event of an incident that may involve the release of thousands of gallons of product and ignition of tank cars of crude oil in a unit train, most emergency response organizations will not have the available resources, capabilities or trained personnel to safely and effectively extinguish a fire or contain a spill of this magnitude.”

A report on oil train safety by the Interagency Board, which coordinates local, state, and federal agencies on emergency response, described the situation on the ground during the 2015 Mount Carbon, West Virginia oil train accident:

“During the derailment sequence, two tank cars were initially punctured releasing more than 50,000 gallons of crude oil. Of the 27 tank cars that derailed, 19 cars became involved in the pileup and post-accident pool fire. The pool fire caused thermal tank shell failures on 13 tank cars that otherwise survived the initial accident.”

“Emergency responders at the Mount Carbon, WV incident reported the first thermal failure about 25 minutes after the accident. Within the initial 65 minutes of the incident, at least four tank car failures with large fireball eruptions occurred. The 13th and last thermal failure occurred more than 10 hours after the accident.”
Interagency Board Report


All the precautions in the world will not prevent the inevitable. Sooner or later one of these massive trains carrying highly volatile Bakken Crude is going to come off the rails while transiting a major urban area. There is going to be a massive fire, continued explosions as tank cars cook off, and we are going to be reduced to watching block after block of one of our cities burn to the ground.

Joe has fulfilled his promise. The proponents of the Green New Deal are high-fiving and celebrating. Meanwhile, out there in the real world, the bomb trains are on the move, and the clock is ticking.

https://andmagazine.com/talk/2021/01/26/the-bomb-trains/
 
I'd say that's a very accurate assessment. And when it happens, some poor schmuck from the rr is going to have it pinned on him and be ruined, if he/she lives.
 
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