Big Oil destroys small town. News outlets silent.

[Rhambuk]

oil prices ++++++

[katrik]

For whatever reason, it's a couple of days late.. But it's definitely in the news.

[SamwiseRed]

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[Hasbinbad]

so who buys and sells the transport contracts for shipping petroleum products for the cheapest possible price which may or may not have led to cutting back on safety measures?

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

so who buys and sells the transport contracts for shipping petroleum products for the cheapest possible price which may or may not have led to cutting back on safety measures?

any valid answer to this question constitutes one aspect of "big oil" imho

[Rhambuk]

Haven't looked into it but from what I've heard from the news/theories etc.

When the train reached the maine border there were protesters as maine citizens did not want it going through out state. The police broke up the protest and allowed the train to pass. The train reached its destination and an engineer checked on it set the brakes etc and went to his hotel room for the night. Somehow the cars released from the engine and rolled backwards, how this happened is a mystery as all cars have emergency brakes (My father worked for the railroad company a long time ago and knows this for fact. Somehow 70 cars emergency brake systems failed and they all rolled backwards into the town.

Doesn't really sound like an error, im thinking some angry protester wanted to make a statement but nothing will ever be known because BOOM everything is destroyed.

[Nizzarr]

Since this happened ~100 km from where I live, I know pretty much what happened.

There was an engine fire in the head locomotives @ 11:25pm est that friday night, this happened where they park the train for the shift change. The firefighters turned off the engine, releasing the air from the air compressor. They park the train at the start of a big steep hill, more steep than any railroad should be at. The MMA engineers then restarted the engine, but with no air in the compressors, the train started going down the hill with no brakes to stop it.

There was no protestors or anything. I've been hearing about this for the past 3 days in the news. Still 7 confirmed deaths and 40 missing people.

[Hasbinbad]

rhambuk outed by saint nizzarr and confirmed as liar by community

[Barkingturtle]

Or this Nizzarr character might be one of the protestors....

[radditsu]

Originally Posted by eqmaze [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

would rather have train spill then a pipeline bust, train can only spill what it has on it, pipeline can be alot worse.

a great deal worse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwat...izon_oil_spill