re: #7 Justanotherhuman

WTF? I haven’t heard a word on this far more devastating accident on MSNBC yet, but they’re all over the SF plane crash. Oil-laden freight train explodes in Canadian town, people killed. reuters.com

Well, maybe because it’s Canada, and even more so, maybe because it’s in Quebec? That train was carrying crude from the Alberta tar sands. The Reuters piece mentions the Keystone XL pipeline and insinuates this may have some bearing on its approval, as though nothing could possibly go wrong with that, either. From what I’ve read, that oil will go straight into the world market anyway, and will benefit only oil speculators and Big Oil.

According to the article, the train was actually carrying oil from North Dakota, which is extracted by more conventional means.

The train, which had been hauling crude oil from North Dakota to eastern Canada, derailed and blew up early on Saturday in Lac-Megantic, a town of 6,000 on the edge of a deep blue lake and ringed by forests of pine and birch. There was no driver on board.

Please read more carefully.