Comment EI-31992
Received or sent (printed as 4/8/2022)
Today, Minnesota is in danger of more oil trains running down our tracks. Canadian Pacific is working to merge with Kansas City Southern to haul oil from the Canadian tar sands down to refineries in Texas. The average Canadian Pacific oil train already stretches over a mile long. Add much more length, these trains become a higher risk of any accident being a disaster. This merger will give Canadian Pacific full power as they transport oil down to Texas refineries. Canadian Pacific won’t have any checks upon them as they do this, no other companies they need to work with to encourage them to keep trains below regulation level lengths. This leaves us in danger of oil-filled train cars just waiting to derail. I oppose this merger.
Submitted by: Peder Ouren · Eagan, MN
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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