{"id":12284,"date":"2015-02-16T22:23:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=12284"},"modified":"2015-02-16T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T04:16:09","slug":"another-oil-train-crashes-and-burns-csc-near-charleston-wv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/another-oil-train-crashes-and-burns-csc-near-charleston-wv.html","title":{"rendered":"Another oil train crashes and burns: CSC<\/strike> CSX near Charleston WV"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nYet another fireball, water supply turned off, state of emergency,\r\nfrom an oil train.\r\nWhen did you last hear of a solar farm explosion?\r\nDo we expect hastily-built and unnecessary fracked methane pipelines\r\nto be any safer than these shoddy exploding shale oil train tank cars?\r\nHow long must fossil fuel fireballs rain down before\r\nwe all get on with clean sun, wind, and water to power the world?\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nFireball above Boomer, WV; Photo credit: Deslyne Copening\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nMarcus Constantino, Multimedia reporter and Matt Murphy, Charleston Daily Mail,\r\n16 February 2015,\r\n\r\nCrude oil train derails in Fayette County, WV<\/a>,\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nResidents who were near the derailment of a crude oil train in\r\nFayette County say it shook and rocked their community like a\r\nBiblical judgment.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAround 1:20 p.m. Monday, a CSX train carrying crude oil from North\r\nDakota’s Bakken formation derailed in the Mount Carbon area of\r\nFayette County, sending oil tankers off the tracks, with some\r\nreaching the Kanawha River.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe train, consisting of two locomotives and 109 rail cars, was en\r\nroute to Yorktown, Va. As of Monday evening, it was unknown how much\r\noil spilled from the train.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAccording to a statement on its website, CSX is “working with\r\nfirst responders to address the fire, to determine how many rail\r\ncars derailed, and to deploy environmental protective measures and\r\nmonitoring on land, air and in the nearby Kanawha River. The company\r\nalso is working with public officials and investigative agencies to\r\naddress their needs.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe railroad also said one person was being treated for inhalation,\r\nbut no other injuries have been reported.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nGov. Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency for Kanawha and\r\nFayette counties because of the event.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nSome of that oil caught fire, sending fireballs and plumes of thick,\r\nblack smoke into the air.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“I saw a plume, an inferno, a pillar, like something Biblical\r\nor wrath-of-God type stuff,” said Boomer resident Charles\r\nKeenan said. “I heard a big boom and a hiss, it was the fuel\r\nhissing, and then it went ‘boom,’ and I felt the heat. I was on\r\nRoute 60, across the river, and I felt the heat and ran because I\r\nthought it was going to rain down.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

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