Crude Oil Transport

A BIG bulk carrier southbound today from the Port of Albany, light. The snag is about to have a bad day. Tug “Dean Reinauer” and barge passing Catskill Creek and Ramshorn Marsh southbound presumably loaded with Bakken crude oil (4 million gallons or so). The crew of this vessel is extremely professional but mistakes happen, collisions occur, equipment fails at a critical moment. We have asked New York State and the U.S. Coast Guard to pre-stage oil spill response equipment at critically sensitive locations like this one AND to train/drill […]

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March, vigil commemorate 47 killed in oil train explosion; advocates oppose proposed Pilgrim pipelines, unsafe oil trains, and Hudson River barges

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Met U.S. Coast Guard and New York Department of Environmental Conservation Thursday aboard the DEC Region 4 patrol boat. They are beginning to create revised/upgraded GIS-based local spill response plans – starting here and working down the River. The transport of crude oil through New York State is driving change – slowly. Nice to see old friends. We’ve been working with these Coast Guard guys on the crude oil issue for two years and the DEC officers for many years on the Upper Estuary. There has been lots of water […]

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Today southbound past Albany I saw a 3 million gallon Bakken oil bomb train “parked” in Albany under the big highway helix that takes up much of the waterfront of the city. The train was stopped on a bridge labeled “Historic Albany.” If one of those bomb trains blows up … Historic Albany could be History.

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