{"id":35514,"date":"2018-06-26T07:50:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T12:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35514"},"modified":"2018-06-26T07:50:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T12:50:51","slug":"derailed-oil-train-spills-230000-gallons-of-tar-sands-in-flooded-iowa-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35514","title":{"rendered":"Derailed Oil Train Spills 230,000 Gallons of Tar Sands in Flooded Iowa River"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derailed Oil Train Spills 230,000 Gallons of Tar Sands in Flooded Iowa River<\/a><\/h3>\n
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On June 22, a\u00a0train carrying Canadian crude oil derailed in northwestern Iowa<\/a>, releasing an estimated 230,000 gallons of oil into a flooded river.\u00a0As a result of the derailment, over 30 rail tank cars ended up\u00a0in the water, with 14 cars confirmed <\/a>to have leaked\u00a0oil.<\/p>\n

To put the size of this spill in perspective, an Enbridge pipeline that leaked in Michigan in July 2010 released roughly 1,000,000 gallons of tar sands oil into the Kalamazoo River<\/a>. Cleanup for this spill, one of the largest inland oil spills on\u00a0record<\/a>, took years and more than $1\u00a0billion.<\/p>\n

Like the Kalamazoo River spill, the\u00a0train that derailed in Iowa was carrying tar sands oil from Alberta,\u00a0Canada.<\/p>\n

This crash, near Doon, Iowa, also is the first one involving the new, safer DOT<\/span>-117R tank cars<\/a> that promised to make oil safer to transport by rail. The accident reveals that these tank cars are not foolproof, considering the nearly\u00a0quarter million gallons of oil released from them into an Iowa\u00a0river.<\/p>\n

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Workers have contained nearly half of the crude #<\/span>oil<\/span><\/a> spilled near Rock River in northwest\u00a0#<\/span>Iowa<\/span><\/a> over the weekend following a freight train derailment on Friday: http:\/\/<\/span>ow.ly\/zPVy30kEj6S<\/a><\/p>\n

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Oil Trains Likely to Spill Into Rivers and\u00a0Lakes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reality of rail transport is that train tracks generally follow rivers across North America. As a result, many oil train derailments also mean oil spills into rivers and other bodies of\u00a0water.<\/p>\n

The 2015 report \u201cRunaway Risks\u201d<\/a> by the environmental nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity found that \u201cwithin just a quarter-mile of existing and planned oil-train routes there are 3,600 stream miles and 73,468 square miles of lakes, reservoirs and wetlands, including iconic waterbodies such as the Puget Sound, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and the Columbia, Hudson and Mississippi\u00a0rivers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Derailed Oil Train Spills 230,000 Gallons of Tar Sands in Flooded Iowa River On June 22, a\u00a0train carrying Canadian crude oil derailed in northwestern Iowa, releasing an estimated 230,000 gallons of oil into a flooded river.\u00a0As a result of the derailment, over 30 rail tank cars ended up\u00a0in the water, with 14 cars confirmed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5317,13768,11782,781,3999],"class_list":["post-35514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-desmog-blog","tag-iowa","tag-justin-mikulka","tag-tar-sands","tag-train-derailment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35515,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35514\/revisions\/35515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}