Staff Presentation
| Title: | From the Badlands to the Maritimes |
| Where: | Western Social Science Association, Environmental Law Panel, Albuquerque, NM |
| When: | Apr 4, 2014 |
| Presenters: | Bill Thoms and Karen Thoms |
| Links: | Download the Presentation (PDF, 860K) |
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Description
The presentation highlights reasons for the high volume of oil being moved from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota to refineries including those in the Canadian Atlantic provinces. Also discusses circumstances surrounding the tragic train wreck and subsequent fire in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that involved a trainload of Bakken crude oil.
