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Friday, March 6, 2015
Yet Another Oil Train Has Derailed and Caught Fire
Yet Another Oil Train Has Derailed and Caught Fire
| Thu Mar. 5, 2015 9:44 PM EST
The scene of crude oil train that derailed in Ontario, Canada on February 14.
Earlier today, yet another massive train carrying crude oil derailed and caught on fire, this time in northern Illinois near the Mississippi River. One-hundred-and-three of the the train's 105 cars were carrying crude oil—from where was not immediately clear—eight of which derailed. Two of the derailed cars have caught on fire, according to BNSF Railway which owns the train, sending plumes of smoke and fire into the sky above Galena, Illinois, a town of just over 3,300.
The image of smoldering oil train cars is now a familiar sight: Incidences of exploding oil trains have been rapidly rising in North America thanks to the fracking boom in North Dakota's Bakken oil fields (Bakken oil is potentially more flammable than normal crude) and the slow transition away from old, unsafe rail cars. Oil-by-rail carloads are up 4000 percent from 2008 in the United States and this is the the third derailment in North America in the last three weeks, including a massive explosion in West Virginia on February 16 that injured one person and spilled oil into the nearby Kanawha River. In fact, a Department of Transportation report predicted trains carrying crude and ethanol would derail an average of 10 times per year in the next two decades. This is bad news for people who live near railways and the ecosystems in which they reside.
People living within a mile radius of today's derailment have begun evacuating,and authorities are monitoring the Mississippi River for leakage. BNSF Railway has not responded to inquiries from Mother Jones about the age of the trains' cars and whether the train was carrying Bakken crude. We will update the post with when we have that information. The Birkshire Hathaway subsidiary did tell Reuters, however, that no injuries had been sustained.
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Freight Train Carrying Oil Derails, Catches Fire in Illinois
The train derailed at around 1:20 p.m. local time (2:20 p.m. ET) near Galena, a town of about 3,400 people in the northwestern part of the state near the Iowa border, BNSF Railway said in a statement. At least five of the train cars derailed, emergency officials said.
A voluntary evacuation area was established for a mile around the derailment. Out of 500 families in that area, only one chose to leave, Galena City Administrator Mark Moran told The Associated Press late Thursday.
The scene of the derailment is near the Mississippi River, and there is a concern that oil and other materials on the train may spill into the waterway, a spokesperson for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency said. State and federal EPA officials were en route to the scene of the derailment Thursday afternoon.
BNSF on Thursday evening couldn't immediately say how many train cars derailed, and said the cause of the accident was not yet known. The company said the train consisted of 105 loaded cars, and all but two of those contained crude oil; the other two were buffer cars loaded with sand. The company did not say how much oil was on the train.
The train was coming from North Dakota, BNSF said. The company did not say where the train was headed.
The Federal Railroad Administration said it was sending a team of investigators to the scene of the accident.
BNSF said it was taking steps to prevent any crude oil from spilling into waterways, and will conduct air monitoring. "Protection of the communities we serve, the safety of our employees and protection of the environment are our highest priorities. We are guided by these priorities as we respond to this situation," BNSF said in a statement.
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Stunning documentary that's going viral in China.
Here are the powerful final minutes of the stunning documentary that's going viral in China.
Curator: Eric March
For millions of people in China, terrible air pollution is a fact of life. Many people simply take it as a given. Journalist Chai Jing used to be one of them.
Until her unborn daughter was diagnosed with a tumor.
While Chai's daughter ultimately underwent a successful surgery to remove the tumor, she started questioning things she previously took for granted.
Like the meat smell that constantly rose up from the restaurant underneath her apartment.
Chai always figured that the restaurant didn't have the technology to filter its emissions in the same way that restaurants in countries like the U.S. and the U.K. did. But as it turns out, that wasn't true at all.
Soon, other things began occurring to her. Like the stench of gasoline from the service station on her street.
Once again, she always assumed there was nothing that could be done about the fumes.Once again, she was wrong.
Which led her to this conclusion...
...which lead to a revelation...
...which inspired her to make this stunning film.
You can watch the final eight minutes of the documentary below, with exclusive English subtitles. For more on the story behind the film and how it came to blow up the Internet in China, my colleague Mike Su posted this fantastic explainer, along with the first 10 minutes translated into English.
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HOWARD_6MAR15_SECOND FOLLOW UP_TWO LINKS FOR TITLE 23 WATERS
| from: | antonio jr. Buensuceso antoniobuensuceso@gmail.com | ||
| to: | Tom.Howard@waterboards.ca.gov, thoward@waterboards.ca.gov | ||
| cc: | Liz Haven Jonathan.Bishop@waterboards.ca.gov, "Maughan, James@Waterboards" "Gordon, Christine@Waterboards" "Wilkinson, Wes@Waterboards" "Cooper, Andrew@Waterboards" anna.hernandez@waterboards.ca.gov, anna.perez@waterboards.ca.gov, "Zuccala, Debbie@Waterboards" dzuccala@waterboards.ca.gov, Antonio Buensuceso | ||
| date: | Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:58 AM | ||
| subject: | HOWARD_6MAR15_SECOND FOLLOW UP_TWO LINKS FOR TITLE 23 WATERS | ||
| mailed-by: | gmail.com |
MARCH 6, 2015
Mr. Tom Howard
Executive Director
State Water Resources Control Board
Dear Mr. Tom Howard,
The OOC maintains two LINKS for TITLE 23 WATERS:
NEW LINK
This NEW LINK was commissioned effective April 1, 2013, Examinees and/or applicants, most probably, would not be able to notice this change or if ever they did notice, they might not have the time to review again and study the new regulations and most likely to commit error in the submission of the application or error in the course of the examination. These errors works in favor of the OCC in terms of additional application fees and/or examination fees TO BE COLLECTED for filing another application for the same examination.
Despite, the fact that there was a new LINK for TITLE WATERS on date April 1, 2013, supposedly the updated one, and therefore, the OLD LINK should have been deleted since April 1, 2013 to avoid confusion, but amazingly, the OOC kept this OLD LINK and maintained it existing even up to the present times. Though the contents might look similar, however in many cases, the contents showed a lot of inconsistencies after a careful perusal which could most likely cause the prospective applicants and examinees to be misled and commit errors in the submission of the application and likewise errors in giving answers to the questions during the examination.
Hence, these errors result to more rounds of application and examination fees expected to be collected by the OOC from gullible applicants. This may be likened to an agency scam. THIS IS UNFAIR on part of the applicants and DEPLORABLE as a matter of your agency action.
For your appreciation, I most respectfully show you pertinent illustration about this subject:
NEW LINK
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| NEW LINK with the SIMILARLY LOOKING coverage as the old link |
OLD LINK
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| OLD LINK with the SIMILARLY LOOKING coverage as the new link
ONE EXAMPLE OF INCONSISTENCY on two links AMONG SO MANY particularly on fees.
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from NEW LINK
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| FEES from new link inconsistent fees shown in the old link |
from OLD LINK
FEES from new link inconsistent fees
shown in the old link EVIDENCE OF EXISTENCE OF THE TWO LINKS AT THE SAME TIME
DOWNLOADED FILES ON DATE JANUARY 21, 2015
from the OLD LINK from the NEW LINK
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DOWNLOADED FILES ON DATE MARCH 2, 2015
from the OLD LINK from the NEW LINK
VIDEO ON THE EXISTENCE OF THE
OLD AND NEW LINKS AS OF FIRST WEEK OF MARCH |
TWO LINKS ACTIVE VIDEO
This is an unedited video file
Thank you very much.
Yours faithfully,
Antonio L. Buensuceso Jr.
This is an unedited video file
Now may I most humbly request that may you please give me the information on how many applicants from date April 1, 2013 up to this date who have committed errors in filing of the application as they have been misled by these two links and/or by the old link and please show how much application fees the OCC gained from these re-applying applicants on account of those errors emanating from the existence of these two links at the same time.
May you please acknowledge receipt of this e-mail and I appreciate your favorable response about this subject.
Thank you very much.
Yours faithfully,
Antonio L. Buensuceso Jr.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
The Case against Malcolm Brinded CBE
The Case against Malcolm Brinded CBE
Email Dated 4 March 2015 from Mr Bill Campbell, Retired HSE Group Auditor, Shell International, to Mr Billy Gordon, a senior officer of Police Scotland
The Case against Malcolm Brinded CBE:
Dear Mr Gordon
Firstly, I would like to thank you for your continual support especially over the period when the Fiscal Anne Currie was carrying out her investigation into the conduct of Shell and HSE officials (2009 – 2011), Appendix C of the attached refers. If you check your files you will bring to mind that early in 2012, I sent a joint communication copied to you and the Royal Dutch Chairman (RDS) Jorma Ollila and his Legal Counsel Michiel Brandjes. We discussed in some detail the contents of a conversation that took place shortly after Shell had issued a press release (Appendix A) with a complete denial of the claims made both on BBC Scotland TV and the oil and gas industry trade Magazine Upstream. As a result of this communication, and by April 2012 ,Malcolm Brinded was released from the employ of RDS, his release initiated by his employer. For the record, as you are aware I was not allowed to come to Aberdeen to make a statement or to convey the many pages of evidence in what is a complex business. Acting to the instruction of the Fiscal Anne Currie the evidence was passed by Grampian police to her.
I would thus formally ask you, or Police Scotland generally, to accept the following article as a sworn statement similar to what I would have given to Grampian police way back in 2008. I believe that a short investigation including an interview under caution with Macolm Brinded will verify beyond reasonable doubt (gross negligence manslaughter) that his actions in 1999 contributed to the deaths on Brent Bravo four years later. You may be surprised to read that in 2005 that was the conclusion at the time by RDS’s top lawyer. No Shell person, including the RDS Chairman or his legal Counsel will perjure themselves by other than agreeing to the corroboration they could provide as witnesses, refer to Appendix E.
In 1999 Malcolm Brinded as MD of the then Shell Expro was the rising star, bound for the very top of the slippery pole. He was a man of considerable ability but also egocentric in that all he cared about was getting to the top of the Shell organisation and to do so meant that his ‘report card’ to corporate headquarters in The Hague had to be ticked in every box with VG. Apart as explained, him hiding the true results of the 1999 Audit and its findings, he was cooking the books by failing to include in the returns to The Hague financial defalcation. This is documented and has never been denied. It is not relevant to the Health and Safety issues, but paints a picture of the character of the man, to get where he wanted in the organisation he needed a perfect scorecard, and heaven help anyone or anything that stood in his way. A few journalists bravely did, and their demise is noted in the article.
As you can observe, and a point that will not be missed by the STUC and other worker representatives, Shell would steep itself in the gutter to protect its reputation. Influenced by Brinded, the initial report from Shell into the fatalities in 2003 was that the deceased were in part responsible for their own deaths. This was despite the fact known about and accepted both by Shell and the HSE that in 2003 violation of the permit to work system was in the words of the Shell internal post fatalities technical review custom and practice across the oilfield, this coincidentally was also a verified finding in the 1999 Audit.. The deceased in entering the enclosed space under instruction from the Shell supervisors did so because not to raise a permit had become normalised behaviour. They had been subjected for many years by bullying and harassment from an Asset Manager who was from his own medical data supplied to the investigators in 2005 acting with diminished responsibility at the time. Shell had to quickly withdraw and apologise for the article because of the rebellious groundswell from offshore from the hundreds of workers who like the deceased had worked in this hostile environment. I wrote to the HSE CEO Geoffrey Podger about this and other lies and described the HSE’s inaction in these matters as morally repugnant. He did not reply, and I am glad to report that he is no longer CEO but banished it appears to New Zealand, God help them!
As the Crown officials in Scotland including the Lord Advocates Boyd, Angolini and Mulholland were unwilling it appears to investigate fully the actions of Shell, supported by a complicit HSE, because it is not it appears in their vested self interests to do so, I am confident that the Scottish Government copied on this will give every support to the police and perhaps since health and safety at the workplace is not a devolved issue these matters should be taken up by the Attorney General.
Baroness Liddell is copied on this correspondence and was contacted about a month ago along with the leader of the labour pary in Scotland but no reply, no denial. I would have reasonably expected such a formidable politician to have reacted strongly and quickly to the allegations made about her by her close friend Malcolm Brinded. As I pointed out, in a note also sent to my MSP Tricia Marwick, that Liddell may be completely innocent of the charges, it is not incredible that Brinded may have used her name in vain.
Note to Editors and journalists about in the public domain
The evidence related to the misconduct of the Offshore Safety Division (OSD) officials in Aberdeen and the HSE CEO is in the public domain and published with no objections from the HSE in the Commons select committee report session 2007/8 with reference number HC 246-11
Appendix C attached, is an open letter to the Commons and the Lords in March 2011, this is self explanatory, and is also in the public domain
The three articles attached include data taken from and converted into more understandable form from the Audit findings in 1999 and Shell’s post fatalities review in November 2003, and the contents are accurate and not contested as such by RDS. the original data in the form of power point presentations and supporting Shell internal correspondence, is held on file in several bundles of evidence by Grampian police.
My assumption is prior to publication of any of the contents of the attached, if that is your intention, Baroness Liddell will be given right to reply, Mr Brinded’s reply can be taken as Appendix A of the main article. My understanding, I cannot verify because the Honours cabinet secretary at the Commons deems it confidential, is that Helen Liddell supported, nominated, whatever the nomenclature, the CBE award to Brinded in 2002 for his services to the UK oil and gas industry, that also needs to be verified by the Baroness, or Brinded, for that matter.
To the BBC, as can be observed in the article the BBC suffered the vindictiveness of Malcolm Brinded in 2006 and as your previous employees are mentioned in the article you should raise this with your legal counsel and management.
DCS Gordon is a senior police officer with Grampian police
Bill Campbell
March 4th, 2015
ATTACHMENT DOCUMENTS
The Case against Malcolm Brinded: February 2015 (INCLUDES APPENDIX A, B, C, D & E)
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