タグ - man-made disasters

Wall Street JournalWrecks Hit Tougher Oil RailcarsWall Street JournalIn a string of recent oil train derailments in the U.S. and Canada, new and sturdier railroad tanker cars being built to carry a rising tide of crude oil across the continent have failed
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Wall Street JournalObama's Oil-by-Rail BoomWall Street JournalThanks to various competing news stories (a plane crash in San Francisco, the Trayvon Martin shooting trial), Americans did not dwell on a fiery oil-train accident in Canada that killed 47.
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Wall Street JournalCanada Unveils an Oil-Train Safety TaxWall Street JournalThe Lac-Mégantic accident spurred regulatory changes in the U.S. and Canada—from beefed up emergency-preparedness requirements to new rules governing railcars—while raising concern
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Telegraph.co.ukSaudi Arabia's crude oil price warNew York PostWhat exactly is driving the price of oil down in today's markets — and ultimately at the gas pump? The primary driver is that our ally, Saudi Arabia, has declared war on the booming Amer
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ScotsmanEuan McColm: Sturgeon over barrel on oil wealthScotsmanFOR decades, oil has dripped through our national debate, leaving its slick on arguments about prosperity and fuelling the righteous indignation of those nationalists driven by the conviction t
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Plunging Oil: What the Past Tells UsBarron'sLast week, the price of a barrel of crude dropped below $50 for the first time since the financial crisis, and that caused all kinds of consternation, with the weakness in oil said to be pointing to a global econ
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