On July 11, 2015 at noon, join us to spread the word about the Blast Zone! With the types of products transported on our trains today, if you are within a distance of 1 km of a train going by, you are in the Blast Zone, and at risk, in case of derailment.
On July 6, 2013, an oil train exploded in Lac Megantic, Quebec, killing 47 people. Two years later, and big oil is pushing harder than ever to move more and more oil trains through North America, while oil trains keep exploding, and carbon emissions keep rising. New train tankers that have been developed to withstand derailment have proven not to be safer or more capable of resisting explosion than the old DOT111.
This May, the US Department of Transportation is set to release new rail safety regulations. While an oil train erupted in flames in Galena, IL, lobbyists for big oil met with Federal regulators pressuring them to weaken these proposed rules. We know that these rules will not protect the 25 million Americans, and over 8 million Canadians who live in the oil train blast zone, because there is NO safe way to transport extreme tar sands and Bakken crude.
This year, from July 6-12, 2015, citizens will organize more than 100 events across the US and Canada to demand an immediate ban on oil trains.
FMI click go here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/keepers-of-the-athabasca-blast-zone-campaign?source=facebook&referrer=jule-asterisk&fb_ref=Default