Major oil spill spreads across Iowa floodwaters, forcing evacuations after train derails (VIDEO)
Drone footage released by authorities in Iowa shows oil spreading across flooded fields following a devastating train derailment. Dozens of damaged cars are seen piled on the broken train tracks near the Rock River. The 33-car freight train carrying oil from Alberta, Canada, derailed on Friday morning near Doon in Lyon County, Iowa. The BNSF Railway Company has not revealed how much oil the tankers were carrying, and said it doesn’t know how much oil has leaked, but that a clean-up is underway.
Some of the cars soon began leaking crude oil into the Little Rock River floodwaters, prompting an evacuation of nearby houses and sparking fears of drinking water contamination. A number of towns downriver from the spill take their drinking water from nearby wells. Within hours, the oil had spread five miles downriver.
>using iwoegian like you're not an iwoegian I lived in Cedar Rapids, no one but Iowa and huskers use that term.
Adam Kelly
Bump
Gavin Ortiz
>Pipelines do seem like they're asking for somewhat less trouble, I've never seen a pipeline derail.
James Baker
RT is the CNN of Russia but Sputnik is far worse
Austin Richardson
Train derailment? thanks for not letting us use more pipelines so were forced to use the more expensive and more dangerous rail method, which by the way is all owned by mr warren buffet, wonder why he is a liberal?
its not like a tanker or refinery exploded. Its just a train derailment.
Levi Foster
>Iowa
Ryder Brooks
i've seen some threads derail
Colton Fisher
not really a story end of the day oil needs to be transported somehow. Train or pipeline. train is the lesser of 2 evils.
Jack Hernandez
CNN would report on this, but it would drum up support for the pipeline.
Josiah Smith
they are just shitposters, a car accident could mean Islamic invasion to them, while 30% of Russia is muslim
Jayden Richardson
Huh. Poland is a major exporter of coal in Europe, but a net importer of oil and natural gas in order to meet its energy needs.
That's what Jewpedia says, anyway. Seems like one of those backwards Jewish claims.
Ryan Thomas
THANKS OBAMA!
Lucas Harris
Train derailment is one of the first communist tactics. Dig deeper gentlemen.
William Bennett
What's the QRD on why we're all supposed to hate the pipeline? Is it just muh big ebil corporations and muh global warming?
Isaiah Turner
So S or F? I can't fully comprehend gentlemen
Blake Morgan
Throw some kitty litter on it.
Alexander Carter
The railroad carrying the oil is a Warren Buffet holding, who is a big contributor to the Dems and Obama, who blocked the pipeline for the railroad tankers of Buffet.
Luke Ramirez
(((rt.com)))
Jaxon King
That and native americans.
Nathan Adams
yeah no big deal, besides the fact that it, like all the pipelines, CONTINUOUSLY leak oil at rate too low for the pressure sensors to detect. Congratulations, you've turned your home into an engine because schlomo wants a few more shekels in his wallet.
F for the oil S for the Ohio landwhales that will surely be impacted by the mess left by the derailment
Henry Clark
Mostly S.
Jace Davis
Right but they usually have talking points for people to shill endlessly in order to avoid having a sensible discussion.
Oh, that's the one where they have it almost all built but then the Injuns don't want it endangering their sacred water and the pipeline people don't want to have to figure out a different route?
Josiah Nguyen
What a autistic thread from meme flag Ivan’s Sage
Landon Adams
The Indians are idiots. Instead of blocking the pipeline they should have been negotiating for royalties from the pipeline company.
Andrew Baker
>Is it just muh big ebil corporations and muh global warming? Yes. They think that if they stop the pipeline people will just stop using oil.
There's one here that they are moving off of indian land. And they're still getting pissy about it.
Same in NY. All of the brain damaged leftists, lobbied against pipelines in the state. So, now we have tankers that look like normal tractor trailers driving 24-7 on our highways. Did they thing that the LNG wouldn't get delivered one way or another? So, now they got the more dangerous option. Instead of a pipeline we have rolling bombs moving at 70mph on our highways. Where do these people think that the energy they consume comes from? I guarantee you that these protesting faggots wouldn't find rolling blackouts acceptable. As soon as a lack of energy directly affects them, they would be the first ones bitching.
Dylan Adams
>Did they thing *Did they think
Nathan Kelly
I bet it consumes more energy and generates more pollution and waste to truck that stuff around instead of having a pipeline, too. Just a guess.
Jason Robinson
>Where do these people think that the energy they consume comes from? If you asked them they would probably say: "The wall outlet."
Hunter Reed
Because the only way russians can feel better about their third world shithole of a country is posting and exaggerating bad news about others.
William Martin
Not to mention the added wear and tear to the roads. And added traffic.
Jackson Jones
Well, the trucks do burn the same product that they are carrying 24-7.
Gavin Allen
And all the consumable parts on the trucks, the huge amount of oil truck engines go through, the parts to fix the trucks, the grease they leak everywhere, the soot they pump into the air, and that's all to say nothing of all the drivers who consume money and energy and water and food and emit piss and shit and carbon dioxide and health care costs.
Parker Gomez
Could be sabotage. Bet this will happen in the future a lot. Cause mayhem. They do have a great extensive network of the best collaborators, the best folks.
Of course the worst is when they mess with volcanoes, weather and other random (((natural disasters)))
Noah Ramirez
Oh wait wait I was thinking about that backward. Shitty roads and lots of traffic is a GOOD THING because that means people will drive less.
Kind of like with widening the LIE. Thy didn't want to do that because then it wouldn't suck as much and that way there would be less traffic.
Thomas Peterson
>Happening >Never Happens Choose one
Dylan Kelly
So yeah about those evil pipelines.
Grayson Bailey
can someone go there and shoot a flare at the oil?
Logan Thompson
Warren Buffet still thinks transporting oil via train is cost effective?
Carson White
I saw one of those fuckers blow up on the main road down from me, as I overlook it from a mountain.
The explosion shook the house from about 3 kilometers away.
Several people were killed.
Jose Sanchez
let's get to fucking.
>some train spill, it's da apolcalyps
derp.
Alexander Wright
I'm a volunteer firefighter. We all had to enroll in a class specifically about these trucks because of the danger that they present. The good news: they have engineered a number of safety innovations for these trucks. The valves will purge, for example, even if the trailer is inverted and each tank in the trailer can individually purge even if the common manifold is damaged.
The bad news: we have had 5 rollovers in the past year. Luckily, none have yet resulted in an explosion. So far, the safety mechanisms have worked well. It still puts emergency services and the general public in unnecessary danger when we could have just had a pipeline.
Jackson Clark
yea RT doesn't need to wait for deep state approval like CNN or FOX before printing stories
