RvK:A Watchdog on New Crude Oil Shipments on the Hudson – via Tanker, Barge & Train
November 9, 2013
Afrodite in the Port of Albany, Sept. 21, 2013. (The discharge visible is ballast water.) A crude oil barge is also visible starting south.
A crude oil barge departing Albany, southbound on the Hudson River, on October 21, 2013.
Afrodite southbound at Walkway Over the Hudson State Park in Poughkeepsie on August. 17, 2013.
Tanker cars on a train just north of Newburgh, on the west shore CSX freight line, on August 25, 2013.
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