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A Railroad Megamerger Could Be A Boon To Canada’s Dirty Oil Industry – Heemang Parmar
[ad_1] Shortly after 1 a.m. on July 6, 2013, Bernard Théberge stepped outside a bar in eastern Québec for a cigarette. At just that moment, a runaway freight train carrying 2.1 million gallons of oil throttled into Lac-Mégantic, a tiny town near the Maine border. The train derailed and exploded in a giant fireball. When…