Hot Zone Quotes of the Week        

Quote of the week for January 4th, 2008, Erik Svendsen, an epidemiologist with the South Carolina state health department.  "We heard the community telling us, 'I'm sick, I'm sick, "We saw enough uncertainty in the literature that told us we need to do something."

Quote of the week for July 4th, 2007, Raj Kahlon, a Squamish councillor, "It was a disaster waiting to happen, the way they [CN] were running and not listening.."

Quote of the week for May 24th, 2007, New York Senator Schumer, "We're on the brink of a disaster. In our own state of New York we have seen the effects more than any other state."

Quote of the week for November 4th, 2006, Tim Hanely, of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters says, "In a 24-hour period, we're talking probably between 300 and 500 hazardous material cars rolling through Toledo Acid, chlorine are just some of the products we carry. And all of them if mixed together through a leak could be catastrophic."

Quote of the week for October 26th, 2006, Patricia Abbate, executive director of CRS, “Every day our railways transport more than one million tons of hazardous materials, passing by American schools, homes and communities. This Symposium will bring together leaders in the field to discuss the problems, but more importantly to discuss potential solutions.”

Quote of the week for July 8th, 2006, Tim Smith, chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen California State Legislative Board, "And if they've got time to paint their pictures, a terrorist's got plenty of time to plant a stack of C-4's on the side of the car and blow it up."

Quote of the week for June 8th, 2006 Missoula, Montana resident Mark Kersting’s,  “If what has happened in Alberton were to happen in Missoula…in front of Sun Mountain Sports, everyone in the neighborhood would have woken up dead,”

Quote of the week for May 22nd, 2006 G. Stephen Felker Sr., chairman and chief executive officer, wrote in a letter to employees dated Monday, "We have worked hard for a year and a half to recover, but the damage is too great. Without the train derailment and chemical spill, we were challenged. With it, we were destroyed."

Quote of the week, September 9th, 2005 by Rios Sdrakas Rivers Edge Sportfishing Outfitters, Squamish Canada: "Everything I’ve worked towards seems miniscule in the haze of CN’s lights at 4:45 a.m. I’ve already lost so much and I don’t feel I am willing to loose any more."

Quote of the week, October 6th, 2005, by Patti Sramek, Long Beach California resident concerning proposed railroad yard: "They're trying to treat us like a third-world country. It's just a dumping ground over here,"

Quote of the week for August 31, 2005. Cincinnati Mayor Charlie Luken: 'Wal-Mart can track a pair of socks across the country, and you guys can't track a railcar full of dangerous chemicals?' "

Quote for the week of August 23rd, 2005. United Steelworkers' National Director Ken
Neumann: "We want to know what CN is trying to hide. Is it the fact that materials being loaded onto trains are poorly identified? Or is it that the railway knows that its practices are dangerous and reckless? The public deserves to know."

Quote of the week, Senator Joe Biden, August 3rd, 2005: The potential death toll of a tanker attack is staggering. The Chlorine Institute has estimated that an assault on a chlorine tanker could create a toxic cloud extending up to 15 miles.

Quote of the week: "Of the more than 80,000 chemicals that have been in commercial use since World War II, just five types are regulated: PCB's, halogenated chlorofluoroalkanes, dioxin, asbestos and hexavalent chromium." July 24th, 2005 Amy Cortese, New York Times

Quote of the week, July 11th, 2005, Sandra Thompson, "We thought at first it was chemical warfare...It was like a nightmare. I will never forget it."

Quote of the week for July 9th, 2005, Lamar Ledford,  "If I don't make it, please tell my mamma I love her."

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