{"id":27675,"date":"2013-09-18T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T20:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=27675"},"modified":"2013-09-19T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:56:13","slug":"bnsf-infrastructure-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=27675","title":{"rendered":"BNSF, Infrastructure Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BNSFoiltrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-27766\" alt=\"BNSFoiltrain\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BNSFoiltrain-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BNSFoiltrain-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BNSFoiltrain-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BNSFoiltrain.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP\u00a0 Sept 18, 2013) &#8211; The CEO of BNSF Railway Co. says the company is putting billions of dollars into infrastructure improvements and implementing safety measures that should allow it to keep up with demands of shipping crude from North Dakota.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matt Rose told attendees at the North Dakota Petroleum Council&#8217;s annual meeting Friday that BNSF will spend $4.3 billion in 2013 to improve its system and plans to invest $200 million in the next 18 months to increase its capacity to ship oil.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BNSF is the largest shipper of oil in the Bakken and Three Forks formations, moving out about 600,000 barrels a day.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rose says that while the recent disaster from a train derailment in Quebec has &#8220;focused the attention&#8221; on shipping hazardous materials by rail, it remains a safe mode of transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP\u00a0 Sept 18, 2013) &#8211; The CEO of BNSF Railway Co. says the company is putting billions of dollars into infrastructure improvements and implementing safety measures that should allow it to keep up with demands of shipping crude from North Dakota. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Matt Rose told attendees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27675"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27769,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27675\/revisions\/27769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}