Yeah! More of these on the way!
Yeah! More of these on the way!
The Quebec incident, right?
Yes, we have just had another train derailment in West Virginia. Apparently these were carrying the highly flammable ND Bakken oil in the newer cars with 1/8 inch additional steel cladding. On the other hand only about a tenth of the cars in the train burned, so perhaps the extra steel helped. No one died. However, pipelines are not a guarantee of safety either. The 6 ft diameter pipe that split crossing a Kalamazoo River tributary and ran for 24 hours before being discovered has cost at least $1 billion for cleanup and is still not cleaned. That tar sands dilbit is a bitch to clean up, much worse than regular oil. I guess a lot of people are glad they got those clean up jobs. ON the other hand, the dozens of people who lost their homes permanently are not so happy.
Most people have not heard of the major pipeline explosion in Qingdao, China in late 2013. It killed 62 people. Even more than the 47 killed in Lac Megantic shown in your picture. About a mile of pipeline blew up. Here is a link:
Does anyone have any information on major Solar or Wind energy disasters?