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On wrong track: Regulators miss real problem in rail-car explosions
Posted by Dispatch: None Given on December 20th, 2015
Dispatch: Track defects caused fiery crude-oil derailments that forced 1,100 people from their homes in the Appalachian village of Mount Carbon, West Virginia, this year and killed 47 people in a Canadian town in 2013. In fact, a Dispatch analysis of federal records shows that track defects and human error are to blame for most railway incidents. Yet U.S. regulators continue to focus on tanker cars instead of the rails that support the cars and millions of gallons of Bakken crude, a type of highly...
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Oil-extraction method also could reduce greenhouse gas
Posted by Dispatch: None Given on June 13th, 2011
Dispatch: Carbon dioxide produced by FirstEnergy's W. H. Sammis power plant along the Ohio River could be injected underground to force more oil out of old wells.
A gas tied to climate change could someday bring new life to old Ohio oil fields.
State officials are investigating whether carbon dioxide could be used to draw millions of barrels of crude oil from fields that were all but played out.
Energy companies have injected carbon dioxide into old oil fields in Texas and California for decades....