Oil and Water II

August, 1998, 27 rail cars hauling barley and wheat went upside down, spilling their loads east of Essex, MT near Bear Creek, a tributary to the Wild and Scenic Middle Fork of the Flathead River.

March 2011, 19 rail cars came unglued four miles west of Essex. One car dumped oatmeal into the river and another lost 200 frozen turkeys. ““Our cutthroats will have lower cholesterol this spring,” county commissioner Jim Dupont commented.”

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These are just a few of the problems that BNSF has had carrying freight to market. Normally they do a good job, but every once in a while there is a glitch. Scary as that might be, it’s about to get a whole lot scarier. Oil from the Bakken oil boom is mostly carried by rail to all three U.S. coasts. This is a recent photo of a 100-car oil train just east of the divide and headed for the Flathead River Valley. Each of these cars holds almost 30,000 gallons of crude oil. If even a small portion of that load, not to mention 27 cars, were to find its way into the Flathead River we would be facing a real, long-term ecological disaster for fish and wildlife all the way down to Flathead Lake and beyond. The Yellowstone River pipeline spill released only about 60,000 gallons of oil. That’s about two rail cars worth.The Bakken expects to ship more than 40 million gallons of crude this year. We can’t afford ANY glitches.