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Bakken Crude Makeup Faces Scrutiny in Rail Car Explosion
2013-09-10 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EnergyWire: As U.S. regulators and Canadian investigators home in on the calamitous July derailment of a 73-car oil train in Quebec, one question lingers, fraught with consequences for crude shippers: Did the contents of the rail cars fuel the disaster`s intense explosion and fire? If the Bakken crude that slammed into the small town of Lac-Mégantic is linked to the severity of the resulting damage, the shale oil boom could face stricter transportation regulations and the public-relations black eye of a tie...
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