Posted on 05/06/2015 10:23:48 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) | Federal investigators say a leaking oil train that hauled crude oil from North Dakota to Washington in January had tank cars with faulty valves, which also are installed on thousands of tank cars nationwide.
A federal directive in March ordered tank car owners across the U.S. to replace the flawed valves, saying they were an "immediate safety issue."
The Federal Railroad Administration investigated the 100-car BNSF train because it had to have 14 cars with slow leaks removed after traveling across Montana and Idaho to a Washington refinery, the Spokesman Review reported.
The first leak was discovered Jan. 12, when crew members spotted an oil sheen on the side of a single tank car at the Hauser refueling depot about 20 miles east of Spokane. An additional 13 tank cars were found to be leaking and were removed during stops in Vancouver and in Auburn, south of Seattle. Two more leaking cars were discovered after the train arrived at the Anacortes refinery.
BNSF Railway said less than 25 gallons of crude oil was released through the valves on the top of the cars.
Another tank car with a leaking valve was discovered at a BNSF rail yard Jan. 15 in Denver. That car was carrying flammable mineral spirits.
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McKenzie Valve is an affiliate of Union Tank Car Co., which is owned by a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway. All of the leaking valves were detected on cars owned by Union Tank Car.
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You know if only there was a way to transport oil underground.
This sounds like leaks so slow that they would not pose an ignition hazard.
Were those valves on a tank car owned by George Soros?
Warren Buffet owns BNSF, afaik.
They really should test valve designs before they manufacture and install thousands of them.
The Federal Government should file a LAW SUIT against the OWNER of the TRAIN.. WARREN BUFFET.
Warren Buffet not only owns the railroad, BNSF, he also owns the company that manufactured the tank car and the faulty valves.
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