| More Oil Train Derailments Less Action | 20 March 2015 |
The recommendations come in the wake of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster in which 47 were killed, but also as small Canadian communities grapple with three train derailments in the last month. A recent incident occurred when 13 train cars derailed near the small community of Gregg in southern Manitoba, about 50 kilometres east of Brandon. Canadian National Rail (CN) reported that some refinery cracking stock was spilled but there was no threat to public safety. On Saturday, a second recent derailment near Gogoma, Ont., caused a rail-car fire and some oil spilled into a nearby river system. Rail-safety officials said they would not be pursuing an investigation into a derailment that spilled 30,000 litres of a petroleum product on farmland near Carberry. CN, which operated the train, gave no further details on what investigators have found so far since the 13 cars carrying a type of bitumen left the track the evening of March 11. The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) described the accident as a "Class 5 occurrence," meaning there will be no further review for "possible safety analysis, statistical reporting, or archival purposes." A TSB spokesman gave no cause for the derailment.
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