Explosive Fracked Oil Destined For Bay Area, Neighbors Rail Against Chemical Trains

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    PITTSBURG (KPIX 5) — Fear of fracking in California used to be about the drilling. Now there’s a new potential danger: trains. Major plans are underway to bring fracked oil to the Bay Area by rail from North Dakota. It turns out the oil is not your average crude.
    A toxic cloud of smoke and flames in North Dakota. A town in Quebec leveled, with 47 dead.
    Train derailments involving unusually powerful explosions are on the rise and they have a common cargo: crude oil fracked from North Dakota’s Bakken shale fields.

    “All over the United States that is all they are bringing in. They are fracking,” said Kalli Graham.
    Along with her neighbor Susan Burkitt, they are heading up a growing coalition of residents fighting to keep the trains from rolling into the Bay Area.
    “There’s just too much at risk,” Burkitt said.
    A company called WesPac Energy wants to modernize and reactivate an old PG&E oil storage terminal in Pittsburg. The plan is to bring the oil in by rail, primarily fracked oil from North Dakota, Colorado, and Texas. The oil would be stored in huge tanks then transferred to all 5 Bay Area refineries by pipeline.
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