http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/energy/oil-and-gas/lac-megantic-crude-oil-in-tankers-was-not-accurately-documented-134897
Lac-Megantic: Crude oil in tankers was ‘not accurately documented’
Transportation Safety Board of Canada lab report said two MMA trains
were carrying mislabelled oil
BY Canadian Manufacturing Daily Staff ON March 06, 2014 10:48am
The deadly rail disaster that devastated an eastern Quebec town will
drive the cost to ship oil by rail up, according to credit rating agency
Moody's.
GATINEAU, Que.—Federal safety investigators confirmed in a new report
the crude oil aboard the train that burst into flames in Lac-Megantic,
Que., last summer was not identified correctly.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) released a lab report
this week that found the hazard level of the oil being carried in tank
cars of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) Railway train that
derailed and exploded in the tiny Quebec town July 6, 2013, “was not
accurately documented.”
According to the agency, samples were collected from nine tank cars that
were located at the end of the train that did not derail in the incident.
Those cars were moved to nearby Nantes, Que., about 10 kilometres
northwest of Lac-Megantic, following the incident.
“No attempt was made to collect samples from the derailed tank cars
since all were exposed to the post-derailment fire to some extent,” the
TSB said in its report.
The TSB said oil samples were also taken from two tank cars from another
MMA train located in Farnham, Que., that was also carrying crude.
Samples from both trains should have been identified as a Class 3
Dangerous Good, and further divided into packing group (PG) II, a medium
hazardous flammable liquid.
The oil aboard the trains was identified as a dangerous good having the
least hazardous characteristics.
The crude oil samples were sent to four external labs for testing,
according to the agency.
“The large quantities of spilled crude oil, the rapid rate of release
and the oil’s high volatility and low viscosity were likely the major
contributors to the large post-derailment fireball and pool fire,” the
TSB reports reads.
The incident levelled the centred of the town when it derailed and burst
into flames, killing an estimated 47 people.
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