{"id":20851,"date":"2014-08-06T10:54:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=20851"},"modified":"2014-08-08T10:49:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T15:49:21","slug":"mapped-which-oklahoma-counties-are-crossed-by-trainloads-of-bakken-crude-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/08\/06\/mapped-which-oklahoma-counties-are-crossed-by-trainloads-of-bakken-crude-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapped: Which Oklahoma Counties are Crossed by Trainloads of Bakken Crude Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/fusiontables\/embedviz?q=select+col6+from+1Rf1c4qLWmz6Cw_crcVQ0sRJUWWwM1e791hPGdVvi&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=35.418080801736465&lng=-98.69458234374999&t=1&z=6&l=col6&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=KML\" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deq.state.ok.us\/lpdnew\/saratitleiii\/ohmerc.htm\">Source<\/a>: Oklahoma Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Commission<\/h6><p>Trains carrying 1 million or more gallons of crude oil from the Bakken formation are expected to cross 20 Oklahoma counties each week, data from the Oklahoma Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Commission show.<\/p><p>Explosive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2014\/07\/07\/a_year_after_lac_mgantic_canadians_still_know_little_about_dangerous_rail_shipments.html\">deadly derailments<\/a> and fiery accidents have raised safety concerns about rail transport of Bakken crude oil, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/01\/03\/us-usa-energy-bakken-idUSBREA010ZI20140103\">tests suggest might be more flammable and explosive<\/a> than other types of crude oil.<!--more--><\/p><p>Oklahoma is <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/topic\/cushing\/\">a major oil hub<\/a>, and trainloads of Bakken crude traverse the state en route to refineries along Texas&#8217; Gulf Coast. The Bakken Formation stretches across North Dakota, Montana and parts of Canada.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20869\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 640px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.flickr.com\/photos\/michelgagnon\/9511096215\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20869\" alt=\"Smoke lingers a day after the Bakken crude oil train derailment in Lac-M\u00e9gantic, Quebec, which killed 47 people.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/08\/Lac-Me\u0301gantic-derailment.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/08\/Lac-Me\u0301gantic-derailment.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/08\/Lac-Me\u0301gantic-derailment-500x339.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/08\/Lac-Me\u0301gantic-derailment-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/08\/Lac-Me\u0301gantic-derailment-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/08\/Lac-Me\u0301gantic-derailment-620x420.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Michael Gagnon \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke lingers a day after the Bakken crude oil train derailment in Lac-M\u00e9gantic, Quebec, which killed 47 people.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>After high-profile accidents in Canada and Alabama, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Virginia, federal regulators issued warnings about train shipments of Bakken crude, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/24\/business\/government-proposes-faster-changes-in-rail-tank-cars.html?_r=0\">are beefing up safety requirements<\/a> for oil tank cars. In May, the U.S. Department of Transportation ordered railroads and oil transportation companies to share more information about Bakken oil shipments with state and local emergency officials. Railroad companies, federal agencies and state officials \u2014 including those in Oklahoma \u2014 wanted to keep that information secret.<\/p><p>Citing terrorism concerns, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/07\/07\/oklahoma-agrees-to-keep-oil-train-shipments-secret\/\">signed confidentiality agreements with railroad companies<\/a> and, initially, declined to make public data on the oil shipments. But state officials on Aug. 4 released aggregate county-level data after officials with the U.S. DOT said the reports didn&#8217;t contain \u201csecurity-sensitive information,\u201d <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/oklahoma-begins-posting-information-about-bakken-oil-train-shipments\/article\/5127189\/?page=2\">Paul Monies reports<\/a>. Officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2014\/06\/11\/states-balk-at-federal-call-to-shield-oil-train-data\/\">in some states<\/a>, including Washington, didn&#8217;t sign confidentiality agreements.<\/p><p>Click around and explore the map to see how Bakken crude moves by rail across Oklahoma. The shipments are concentrated in northeastern Oklahoma, data show. Craig County ranks the highest: Up to seven shipments of 1 million or more gallons of Bakken crude are expected to cross the county each week, the data show.<\/p><p>Rail companies expect as many as five shipments to cross Mayes, Muskogee, Sequoyah and Wagoner counties each week, and four such shipments are expected to cross Ottawa, Creek and Tulsa counties each week.<\/p><p>Other counties \u2014 most in a north-south Kansas-to-Texas corridor \u2014 are only likely to see one shipment each week.<\/p><p>Three rail companies \u2014 BNSF, Stillwater Central and Union Pacific \u2014 are currently shipping Bakken crude across Oklahoma, says DEQ spokeswoman Erin Hatfield.<\/p><p>&#8220;The information is updated if there is a change in the number of trains,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly derailments have raised safety concerns about rail transport of Bakken crude oil, which tests suggest might be more flammable and explosive than other types of crude oil. Click around and explore the map to see how Bakken crude moves by rail across Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":20864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[863,495,619,419,582],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20851"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20867,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions\/20867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}