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The Science Behind OK’s Man-made Earthquakes, Part 2

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By Ariel Conn, Seismologist and Science Writer with the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences Oklahoma has made news recently because its earthquake story is so dramatic. The state that once averaged one to two magnitude 3 earthquakes per year now averages one to two per day. This same state, which never used to be seismically […]

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Pipelines vs Oil Trains

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By Juliana Henao, Communications Intern Media outlets have been very focused recently on reporting oil train derailments and explosions. Additionally, the Keystone XL pipeline has hastened political debates and arguments for years by both political parties since its initial proposal in 2008 – and the May 19th pipeline oil spill in California isn’t helping matters. In the […]

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Increasing Risk from Exploding Crude Trains

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By Randy Sargent, Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab and Samantha Malone, FracTracker Alliance In the past two years, crude oil trains have exploded 10 times, killing 47 people.     It could have been much worse. Eight of the ten trains exploded in rural areas. The train that flattened half the business district of the small […]

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CA Crude Oil by Rail Shipments and Railway Accidents

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By Kyle Ferrar, Western Program Coordinator, FracTracker Alliance Incidents in California involving oil-by-rail cars increased from 3 in 2011 to 25 in 2013. There were 24 incidents within the first 6 months of 2014, and oil spills from rail cars increased from 98 in 2010 to 182 in 2013.1 With such an increase in oil train incidents, […]

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Fracking’s Most Wanted – An NRDC Issue Paper

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Lifting the Veil on Oil & Gas Company Spills & Violations NRDC Issue Paper • April 2015 Today Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released a report in conjunction with work by those of us at FracTracker Alliance. We launched this investigation to determine what information about oil and gas company violations is publicly available on the Internet, how accessible […]

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Responses to the Rash of Oil Train Incidents

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By Kyle Ferrar and Samantha Malone Throughout the U.S. more crude was spilled from rail incidents in 2013 than the prior four decades combined. Recently, in a period of three weeks, there were four* derailments of crude oil trains carrying Bakken and other Canadian crudes resulting in fire and explosions, with multiple cars rupturing and set […]