{"id":71926,"date":"2015-05-07T14:25:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T19:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=71926"},"modified":"2015-05-08T07:51:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:51:14","slug":"tankers-oil-was-pre-treated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=71926","title":{"rendered":"Tankers oil was pre-treated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tankeroilcar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23497\" alt=\"tankeroilcar\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/tankeroilcar.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A company official says a shipment of crude involved in an explosive train derailment in North Dakota had been treated to reduce its volatility.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hess Corporation spokesman John Roper said the oil was in compliance with a state law that requires propane, butane and other volatile gases to be stripped out of crude before it can be transported.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The state standard that went into effect last month came in response to a string of fiery train accidents, including a 2013 derailment in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, that killed 47 people.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Despite the treatment of the oil, six cars caught fire in Wednesday&#8217;s derailment near Heimdal. The town was evacuated but no one was hurt.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Members of Congress have called for a stricter, national volatility standard for crude moved by rail.<\/p>\n<p>Wheel fragments found at the scene are &#8220;of great interest&#8221; to federal officials investigating the cause of the wreck, the lead investigator said Thursday as BNSF Railways prepared to reopen the track today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; A company official says a shipment of crude involved in an explosive train derailment in North Dakota had been treated to reduce its volatility. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hess Corporation spokesman John Roper said the oil was in compliance with a state law that requires propane, butane and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71926","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\/71926","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=71926"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71929,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71926\/revisions\/71929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}