“The oil will be moved by rail from North Dakota to a terminal in Albany, N.Y., where it will be loaded onto barges and shipped down the Hudson River to the Bayway refinery”
Most people ASSUME that the only railroad moving out of ND is the BNSF. This is not the first deal like this. JD Irving made a deal similar to this to bring Balkan oil to his refinery in St. John, New Brunswick on the Atlantic Ocean. I believe that also is being shipped across Canada on the CPRS.
What they really need is a canal from Buffalo to Albany that could handle barge traffic off the Great Lakes. (sarc)
I have always wanted to take a trip down this canal. Something in the order of a 52 foot Sea Ray with a pilot would be to my liking...