Photo Gallery & "Hot Zone" Quotes of the Week
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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 th
e
week, April 27th, 2006 by Jackie Corr who writes:
“On August 2, 2005, Marc Racicot bought 10,750
shares of Burlington Northern Santa Fe stock. The price was $30.00 a
share, $322,500 his total cost. Later that day Racicot sold the same
10,750 shares for $594,797 at $55.33 a share. Which means his total
profit for this little quickie was $272,297. Certainly that is nice work
for a day or less if you can get it."
Quote
of the week April 11th, 2006, Lucinda Hodges,
"As
a former Alberton resident, I can easily recall that three of the five
families on my old block
moved, because of the spill, including my own. With just a little more
thought, I can recollect the names and images of at least twenty more
family's who relocated in desperation after the spill, and I am sure
there are more to remember, if we only choose to look back and take the
time to count them."
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, July 24th, 2005 Amy Cortese, New York
Times:
"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."
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."
Quote
of the week, July 3rd, 2005, by Thomas H. Kean, chairman of the Sept. 11
commission and a former Republican governor of New Jersey,
"We're
better off with openness. The best ally we have in protecting ourselves
against terrorism is an informed public."
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