Tagged: coal trains

Bracing for an oil-train impact

By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff

At about 1 a.m. on July 6, 2013, a train carrying Bakken crude oil exploded in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. Minutes later, the town …

Community braces for oil train impacts

By Cameron Rasmusson

Reader Staff

The national economy might run on oil, but for Sandpoint, the energy source could also be its undoing.

About 75 regional residents turned out Wednesday …