On July 6th, 2013, one year ago today, a train carrying oil derailed in the sleepy Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic, resulting in an explosion so wild and so hot it leveled several city blocks and incinerated the bodies of many of its 47 victims. The accident put the tiny town on the international media circuit and dragged a new social concern with it: oil trains.
Whether you call them oil trains, tanker trains or bomb trains, chances are you didn’t call them anything at all before this day last year.
Before the tragedy of Lac-Mégantic, several smaller tanker train accidents (Read more…)