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So, in a round about way, Soros is suing to stop Buffett's railways from shipping oil

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ENVIRONMENTALISTS SUE OVER CRUDE-BY-RAIL
Breitbart ^ | 9-15-2014 | WILLIAM BIGELOW

Posted on 9/15/2014, 9:45:16 PM by Citizen Zed

The environmental group Earthjustice, funded by George Soros and joined by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics, is suing the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in order to prevent crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken formation to be moved to California.

The suit is reportedly in reaction the Kern County Board of Supervisors’ approval last Tuesday of Alon USA Energy's plan to expand the rail terminal at its Bakersfield, CA refinery. The expansion of the terminal would create the state’s largest crude-by-rail facility and allow the terminal to import five times as much crude oil by train as it already does, Earthjustice is also claiming that the state’s railroad bridges, which help transport the crude oil and are owned by private companies, are unsafe. Earthjustice asserts that railroad cars called DOT-111s, which carry oil, are antiquated, and has asked the DOT to issue an emergency order to stop the DOT-111s from carrying the oil.

Although the DOT has plans to replace the DOT-111’s, a lawyer for Earthjustice, Patti Goldman, told public radio station KQED, “They would still allow these railcars to be shipping crude oil and hazardous materials for about four more years. And that’s just too long to expose the public to these types of risks.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/09/15/Environmentalists-Sue-over-Crude-by-Rail
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