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Do you live in the "BLAST ZONE"
Posted by AgentKid on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 4:52 PM

Well now, this is certainly not going to be helpful in having a reasoned discussion of Crude-by Rail. A group called ForestEthics has published an interactive map telling you if you live in the Blast Zone of a Crude-by-Rail derailment along RR lines in both the US and Canada.

See for yourself:

http://explosive-crude-by-rail.org/

Bruce

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Posted by PNWRMNM on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:02 PM

We all have a right to be scarred!

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Posted by MikeF90 on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:05 PM

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Posted by desertdog on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:09 PM

I wonder how soon they plan to produce a similar map of Interstate Highways and tollways.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:11 PM

AgentKid

Well now, this is certainly not going to be helpful in having a reasoned discussion of Crude-by Rail. A group called ForestEthics has published an interactive map telling you if you live in the Blast Zone of a Crude-by-Rail derailment along RR lines in both the US and Canada.

See for yourself:

http://explosive-crude-by-rail.org/

Bruce

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:26 PM

     I hope they can do better next time.  The map shows the wrong rail line in my area.  The line 6 blocks from my house is shown, not the correct line 6 miles east.  Also shown is a branch line that hasn't been used in the 30 years I've lived here.  I wonder if there's a coincidence in the fact that I live in the state's biggest city? Mischief

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Posted by AgentKid on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:34 PM

Murphy Siding
Also shown is a branch line that hasn't been used in the 30 years I've lived here.

I'm pretty sure they have a CP line in Saskatchewan that is wrong as well. Where is Doc Murdock when we need him.

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Posted by PNWRMNM on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:35 PM

Murphy,

This map is largely fact free as you point out. It is in the spirit of those progressive era maps that showed land grants to be many times larger than they really were.

Lairs lie. There is no good response to this stuff. The best the carriers can do is ignore it and point out errors when asked.

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Posted by Deggesty on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:37 PM

PNWRMNM

We all have a right to be scarred!

Mac

And scared, too. Sorry Mac, I couldn't help it, even though my fingers stutter at times, too.Smile

According to their map, I do live outside both of the danger zones. However, if I travel by rail, I put myself right into the worse zone--but I will still travel by rail when I am able because I have never worried about such damage, even when going by a train loaded with petroleum--or any other hazardous material.


I wonder how these people travel and live--do they refuse to use any petroleum products? I also wonder, if they do use petroleum products--have they ever thought how it is possible for the products to be available so they can use them?

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:05 PM

PNWRMNM
[snipped - PDN] This map . . . is in the spirit of those progressive area maps that showed land grants to be many times larger than they really were. . . .

"+1" - my thought exactly. 

Wonder what their source data is, and how they obtained it ?  

Best that no one tell them how the military shipped munitions during WW I and WW II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I, etc. - let along nuclear weapons and waste, chemical weapons, etc., etc.  Mischief  Then again, maybe they'll just pass out from the thought of it all . . . Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:35 PM

Drove from Boca Raton to Jacksonville yesterday - passed 15 or 20 BOMBS - identified gas trucks, lord only knows how many other HAZMAT bombs I passed going my way - and going the other way - staggering.

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Posted by chad s thomas on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:50 PM

OK lets scratch the whole plan to get away from forign oil dependance. It isn't going to work.  There is just way too much of a chance that your whole neighborhood (and mabee your whole town or state) will be wiped off the map. Devil I say we do away with the whole program and go back to heavy reliance on middle eastern oil so we can fund some more radical terrorists that have lofty dreams (religious goals) of wiping us out entirely. I would feel so much safer. SadTongue TiedIndifferentMischief

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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:56 PM

A very telling line on the cited website:

Are there oil trains in your town, that aren’t on this map?
.  I guess they've guessed everything they could, and now need more help to find out where the trains really go...

I fully agree about the Interstate thing (and a lot of "secondary roads" in and out of locales not served by Interstates...

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Posted by CShaveRR on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:01 PM

And when the add the lines they're told about, do you really think they'd delete the incorrect ones?

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Posted by chad s thomas on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:32 PM

I don't know Carl. Are you saying these guys have an agenda?AngrySmile, Wink & GrinCool

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:53 PM

Hmmm...

I didn't think there was any freight going over Raton pass these days.

Looking at some other areas, I suspect that much of this is a fantasy.

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Posted by chad s thomas on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 9:05 PM

Mabee the same tree hugger fantasy where laptops an ipads run on reverse osmosis power from warm & fuzzy land. A power source that is way more important then things like paying attention to the road....Huh?

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Posted by edblysard on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 9:48 PM

I live less than 500 yards from the BNSF main into Houston, work in the middle of refinery row, and ride these nut jobs “bombs” all over the place all day long…do I look worried?

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:06 PM

desertdog

I wonder how soon they plan to produce a similar map of Interstate Highways and tollways.

John Timm

 I think they'd also need to mark the major streets through our city, and all the streets in the industrial parks, and those roads leading to the water treatment plant, the sewer treatment plant, the airport and the feed elevators.

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Posted by ACY Tom on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:53 PM

At the end of the piece, there's a box with the words "Learn More".

Sorta wish they would.

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Posted by Ulrich on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:03 PM
Blast zone? I'm covered... there's a hydrant about 50 feet from my house.
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:17 PM

    Should I be more concerned about the secondary BNSF mainline 6 blocks away, the interstate highway 8 blocks away, the airport flight path straight up above my house, or the 36" natural gas line 150 feet from my office window?

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 2:34 AM

ACY

At the end of the piece, there's a box with the words "Learn More".

Sorta wish they would.

Tom

There is also a 'contact us' button at the bottome of the page.  I did and told them what they had just published in their map was GARBAGE!.

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Posted by Leo_Ames on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 6:20 AM

Hopefully someday there will be a vaccination for nimbyism. 

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 7:08 AM

Leo_Ames

Hopefully someday there will be a vaccination for nimbyism. 

Only when you don't mind having a landfill opened two blocks from your house.

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Posted by mudchicken on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 8:37 AM

At least we now know where stupid resides on the web.

PDN: Appears they cabbaged an old STRACNET map off of AAR's website.

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Posted by Euclid on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 9:10 AM

They present two different grievances.  One is public safety in relation to oil train derailments.  The other is their objection to bringing new oil production on line.  They say that our country does not need new oil supply, and the only reason that oil companies are going after it is for profit. 

The point is not whether they are right or wrong, but rather, whether they can convince the public they are right. 

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:03 PM

Euclid

They present two different grievances.  One is public safety in relation to oil train derailments.  The other is their objection to bringing new oil production on line.  They say that our country does not need new oil supply, and the only reason that oil companies are going after it is for profit. 

The point is not whether they are right or wrong, but rather, whether they can convince the public they are right. 

The only reason Rockefeller got into the oil business in the 19th century was for profit!  Does anyone get into business with the purpose of losing money?

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:13 PM

BaltACD

ACY

At the end of the piece, there's a box with the words "Learn More".

Sorta wish they would.

Tom

There is also a 'contact us' button at the bottome of the page.  I did and told them what they had just published in their map was GARBAGE!.

Balt, have you heard from them yet? Or are they marshalling their evidence that they speak the truth? Surely they will put forth their overwhelming evidence that everything they have in their broadside is the gospel truth.

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:23 PM

BaltACD

Euclid

They present two different grievances.  One is public safety in relation to oil train derailments.  The other is their objection to bringing new oil production on line.  They say that our country does not need new oil supply, and the only reason that oil companies are going after it is for profit. 

The point is not whether they are right or wrong, but rather, whether they can convince the public they are right. 

The only reason Rockefeller got into the oil business in the 19th century was for profit!  Does anyone get into business with the purpose of losing money?

Perhaps they wish that John D. Rockefeller did not produce kerosene that was safer for home use than what was generally available and thus was able sell to several gallons of it?

I wonder--how altruistic are these people as they complain about the oil companies' making a profit? Does any one of them work for free, asking no compensation for his time?

Johnny

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