Lac-Megantic disaster inspires play--TORONTO - New Brunswick playwright Len Falkenstein has never...Ahearn, Victoria
Lac MeganticRailroads Rail Disaster: For a Worst-Case Scenario, Look North February 18, 2023Jordan Barab The East Palestine rail disaster is bad. But it’s not even close to a worst-case scenario. We have seen worse,… Chemical Safety BoardLac MeganticMine SafetyOSHARailroadsRecordkeepingShort...
Matt Gurney: Grandstanding NDP demands hasty, uninformed action on Lac-Mégantic An investigation is ongoing into the Lac Megantic disaster, and in the interim, Transport Canada has taken steps to make the rail system safer on a short-term basis. Given all this, Parliament needs to ur...
The deadly Lac Megantic oil train disaster cost more than $1 billion (seepage 98in the federal regulations) and the cost of rebuilding is more like$2.7 billion. As terrible as the Lac Megantic disaster was, and it was a heartbreaking catastrophe, a worst case oil train disaster in Washing...
Sugar Factory, Lac Megantic Train, Suez Canal: With Kasper Michaels, Andrea Sella, Ada McVean, Shini Somara. Disasters examined: Jul. 6, 2013 Lac-Mégantic derailment in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada; The Feb. 8, 2007 Imperial Sugar refinery explosion in
In the aftermath of the Lac-Mégantic train derailment that levelled the downtown, killed 37 and left 13 presumed dead, the National Post takes an in-depth look at the inner workings of a runaway train, its path and impact and what might have been done t
But one error, made by one man, does not cause a disaster. Other likely factors include short-sighted policies, incomplete regulation and enforcement and acceptance of questionable industry efficiencies. Questions asked by the public are also on the minds of Canadian railway workers and their union...
The Lac-Megantic oil train derailment disaster was one of the largest industrial catastrophes ever recorded in Canada. On 6 July 2013, an unattended train derailed during the early hours in the centre of the city of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, approximately three hours east of Montreal. The train,...
Transport Canada has not fully implemented the Transportation Safety Board of Canada's recommendations on changes to hazardous materials transport in the wake of the July 2013 disaster in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Kathy Fox, the agency's chairwoman, said in a Jan. 28 statement (37 INER 1511, 11...
When the rail bypass is completed, the existing track that runs through the center of Lac-Megantic, including the sidings, will be dismantled. The project was proposed in response to the July 6, 2013, Lac-Megantic rail disaster, in which a runaway train hauling...