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Rockford woman killed in train derailment
CHICAGO TRIBUNE.com ^ | June 21, 2009 | By Vikki Ortiz

Posted on 06/21/2009 8:27:32 PM PDT by Cindy

"Rockford woman killed in train derailment Teen in critical condition with burns, 2 others hurt"

SNIPPET: "Several cars from a Canadian National Railway Co. train smoldered Saturday near Rockford as federal investigators continued to probe whether standing water from heavy rains was a factor in a Friday night derailment that left a 41-year-old woman dead and three others injured."

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: canada; derailment; illinois; rockford; train

1 posted on 06/21/2009 8:27:33 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Velveeta; fanfan

ping


2 posted on 06/21/2009 8:27:51 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy; Freee-dame

The final paragraph of this article:

National Transportation Safety Board officials said a probe could take up to a year. A team of 15 investigators, including representatives from the Federal Railroad Administration and CN will examine track structure and maintenance, integrity of the train cars, crossing signals and the hazardous materials associated with the crash, a spokesman said.

))))))

This article does not use the word ethanol or “lit up the sky for miles around”.

I happened to see an on site tv report Friday night on a Chicago channel. It was a tremendous fire. I believe that it is being diminished because the “hazardous materials associated with the crash” was ethanol; and the State Run Media does not want American consumers to associate the concept of ethanol with explosions, terrible fires, people burning to death, etc. We are supposed to think of ethanol as an eco-friendly substance.

This story is really being buried.


3 posted on 06/21/2009 9:06:00 PM PDT by maica (Politics is not about facts. it is about what politicians can get people to believe. - Thomas Sowell)
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To: Cindy

So one woman has been horribly burned to death as a result of the alternative energy program which mandates ethanol production. How many people have been burned to death, or have died in any way, due to the production of nuclear energy in the United States?


4 posted on 06/21/2009 9:28:34 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: Cindy

ethanol
better than sending your money
to the ragheads in the middle east


5 posted on 06/21/2009 10:52:25 PM PDT by element92
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To: Cindy

RIP.


6 posted on 06/22/2009 12:20:40 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yes.


7 posted on 06/22/2009 12:22:19 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy; Clive; exg; kanawa; backhoe; -YYZ-; Former Proud Canadian; Squawk 8888; headsonpikes; ...
Thanks for the ping, Cindy.


8 posted on 06/22/2009 4:32:13 AM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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