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Here is how the Sierra Club is looking at the issue of shipping oil by rail: <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/11/opinion/schafer-oil-by-railroad">http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/11/opinion/schafer-oil-by-railroad</a> From the link: Rail is the most efficient way to move freight, and Sierra Club is a big fan of rail for transporting people and conventional freight. But moving extreme fossil fuels, like Bakken shale or Alberta tar sands, is a different story entirely. These fuels are "extreme" because they are <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/bmcenaney/the_folly_of_oil_shale_-_nrdc.html" target="_blank">more toxic and more carbon intensive</a> than conventional oil. They are also more dangerous to transport than conventional sources of oil. Production in the Bakken fields has increased<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/07/130708-oil-train-tragedy-in-canada/" target="_blank"> nearly 10 times since 2011</a>. To move all this crude, oil rail companies are running longer, heavier trains. And they are running them farther than ever before, bringing crude to refineries on the East, West and Gulf coasts. The regulatory framework for train safety wasn't designed for crude oil trains, and the rail and safety infrastructure is out of date and not up to the task.
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