Lac|Mégantic rail disaster

Lac-Megantic Rail Disaster – New Book Discusses Regulatory Failure

Campbell indicates that the response to the disaster has been weak. Only 3 low level employees were charged criminally, and found not guilty. A civil settlement ...

The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster Public Talk and Book Launch

A public talk and book launch with Bruce Campbell. The July 6, 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster is a tragedy unparalleled in Canadian history.

The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster - Formac Lorimer Books

Lac-Mégantic is the story of a rail industry writing its own rules, a booming US oil industry based on fracking, fighting any obstacles to ...

Lac-Mégantic rail disaster Facts for Kids

Forty-seven people were killed. More than thirty buildings in Lac-Mégantic's town centre (roughly half of the downtown area) were destroyed, and all but three ...

Lac-Megantic | Montreal Gazette

... Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, has anything changed? Bruce Campbell Columnists · Smoke and fire rise over the town of Lac-Mégantic after a train carrying crude ...

Lac-Megantic trial: Workers cleared over Canada rail disaster - BBC

Lac-Megantic trial: Workers cleared over Canada rail disaster ... A Canadian jury has found three former rail workers not guilty of criminal ...

Bruce Campbell discusses the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster on BNN

On Tuesday, October 23, CCPA's Executive Director, Bruce Campbell appeared on the Business News Network (BNN) to discuss the findings of his new report The ...

The Lac-Mégantic rail accident: When railway safety is taken for ...

On 6 July, 2013, at around 1:15 am, an unattended freight train transporting 72 tank cars of approximately 7.7 million litres of petroleum crude oil rolled ...

Statement on the anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

“Today we remember all those whose lives were taken far too soon in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic disaster. Canada is still failing the survivors, the ...

Driver in Lac-Megantic, Quebec railway crash to seek release from jail

A train engineer charged with criminal negligence in a Canadian rail disaster that killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic, Quebec last July will ...

Canada Updates Safety RequirementsIn Wake of Lac-Megantic Rail ...

The Canadian government announced additional railway safety measures in the wake of the July 6, 2013, disaster in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, ...

Lac-Mégantic disaster anniversary: residents want better rail safety

A decade after a runaway train derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, some say there has not been enough progress in rail safety.

'Complex' latticework of errors that caused Lac-Mégantic train ...

Regardless of what triggered the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, safety experts, veteran railroaders and even Canada's own railroad history ...

Lac Megantic audio tapes reveal railway employees' disbelief

Audio tapes from the Lac Megantic disaster show growing disbelief and confusion among railway workers on the night of the explosion and fire ...

10 years after Lac-Mégantic, NDP continues fight for stronger rail laws

BURNS LAKE - Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the Lac Mégantic rail disaster, Canada's New Democrats honoured the memory of the 47 ...

Lac-Megantic residents appeal decision exonerating CP Railway

... rail carrier for its role in the tragedy ... Lac-Megantic marks 9th anniversary of train disaster. The train ...

Seven years on, have the lessons of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster ...

It was the worst rail accident since Confederation. The people of Lac-Mégantic were victims of a safety regulatory regime that failed ...

Photos: Lac-Megantic train disaster - WMTW

The final report into the Lac-Megantic train derailment and explosion has been released. See photos from the disaster that killed 47 people.

Statement by the Prime Minister to mark 10 years since the Lac ...

A decade ago today, one of the worst rail disasters in Canadian history took place when a freight train carrying crude oil derailed, ...

Train Derailment and Fire, Lac Mégantic, Quebec

A train carrying crude oil derailed in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. The resulting crash and series of explosions killed dozens of people, destroyed 40 homes.