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Colorado derailment: Six crude oil tankers jump track

Colorado derailment was relatively small: Only one tanker leaked. But one Colorado report on the derailment said that the leaking tanker carried 28,000 gallons of oil. The Union Pacific Railroad said only 6,500 gallons of oil had leaked.

By Staff, Associated Press / May 10, 2014

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0510/Colorado-derailment-Six-crude-oil-tankers-jump-track

6 cars of oil crude train derail in Colorado

| May 9, 2014

Photo By Joshua Polson/AP

Crews work to clean up several train cars that were derailed and flipped along the track southwest of LaSalle, Colo. on Friday, May 9, 2014. The train, loaded in Windsor with Niobrara crude bound for New York, derailed around 8 a.m. according to Union Pacific Spokesman Mark Davis. Officials found one car of the 100-car train was leaking.

 

LASALLE, Colo. (AP) — Crews from Union Pacific Railroad worked to clear a six-car oil train derailment that leaked some crude into a ditch Friday in northern Colorado.

 

State and local emergency officials determined that one car of the 100-car train was leaking after the 8 a.m. derailment near LaSalle, about 45 miles north of Denver.

 

The cause of the derailment was under investigation, said Micki Trost, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Division of Emergency Management. Crews had contained the spill to a ditch away from any waterways, Trost said.

 

The amount of oil spilled wasn't immediately known, but a vacuum truck was brought in to suck up the spill. Tanker trucks lined up nearby to transfer the oil.

 

According to The Greeley Tribune (http://tinyurl.com/m96ows9 ), the train was loaded in nearby Windsor with Niobrara crude and was bound for New York. Niobrara oil comes from the Niobrara shale formation in Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. It's not considered as volatile as Bakken crude from North Dakota and eastern Montana.

 

Public and political pressure to make oil trains safer began last summer when a runaway oil train carrying Bakken crude derailed and exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, killing 47 people and incinerating much of the town. Other trains carrying Bakken crude have derailed and caught fire since then in Alabama, North Dakota, Virginia and New Brunswick, Canada.

 

http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/6-cars-of-oil-crude-train-derail-in-Colorado-5466610.php

 

 

Crude oil train derails west of La Salle

Posted 4:09 pm, May 9, 2014, by Thomas Hendrick,

 

 

LA SALLE, Colo. — Six cars of a 100-car crude train derailed near Le Salle, Colo. Friday.

Clean up crews were on scene to clear the derailment. Some crude oil leaked into a ditch, officials said.

 

The train loaded in Windsor with Niobara crude and was headed to New York. The cars derailed around 8 a.m., officials said.

 

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It’s not yet known why the train derailed, reported the Greeley Tribune.

 

Union Pacific Spokesman Mark Davis said the spill was contained in a ditch and no waterway was threatened.

 

A vacuum truck was ordered to help suck up the oil.

 

Colorado Senator Mark Udall released a statement saying the spill is an example of why he has been pressing for the Department of Transportation to update train-safety regulations for cars carrying crude oil.

 

“While we are fortunate there was not an explosion, this incident in Weld County shows why I have been fighting so hard to have the U.S. Department of Transportation update its safety regulations,” Udall said. “The federal government needs to do more.”

http://kdvr.com/2014/05/09/crude-oil-train-derails-west-of-lasalle/