Train Derails in North Dakota Spilling Hazardous Materials

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A 70-car train derailed in Richland County, North Dakota on Sunday night spilling hazardous materials.

31 of the 70 cars derailed with some leaking petroleum.

According to FOX News: The Canadian Pacific train derailed around 11:15 p.m. about a mile southeast of Wyndmere in Richland County, Valley News Live reported. No injuries were reported.

Officials said 31 of the 70 cars derailed, with some leaking petroleum used in the making of asphalt, according to the report.

On Monday morning, emergency response personnel and hazmat experts were at the crash scene. There was no fire and the spill occurred in a cold and snowy area, minimizing the threat to public safety, according to the rail company.

Officials said they will allow the spilled materials to freeze in order to aid the cleanup, which is expected to take seven to ten days.

11 Comments

  1. bad, but not a huge deal. petroleum will evaporate and breakdown relatively quickly. Don’t sweat over this one. If we are being told the truth.

  2. The last useful part of petroleum distillation is asphalt. The sludge that is laid down to top millions of highways in the U.S. and around the world. It comes from the ground and shouldn’t be eaten, it will cause constipation. Other than that it is not a dangerous substance.

    • TOXIC kills wild life and is full of heavy metals.THE GOOD OLT boys used to dump all the used oil on the dirt drive ways and built half the midwest into a toxic hot spot.IF nothing will grow most likely it is toxic.LOMA killed the GHOST dodged that one too!

    • Try working around a tar bucket all day!.within a year or two you will have lung cancer just like ghost got from loma

  3. Trump wanted to rebuilt the roads and so on now we have derailments all the time.The rail road dicks should catch the dude that is putting his pennys on the tracks and lock him away from the genny public

  4. PLASTIC IN ALL SEVEN SEAS is a huge deal same as OIL but even worse as it won`t break down as fast

  5. Seems these are happening almost daily these days. Yet how many people will think it’s nothing out of the norm? Sad that there are still so many asleep sheep.

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