US lays out plan to free up LNG-by-rail rules

Environmental groups hit out at 'shocking' proposal that 'courts disaster'

Dangers: a total of 47 people were killed by an explosion after a train carrying crude from the Bakken shale of North Dakota derailed in Lac-Megantic, Quebec in 2013
Dangers: a total of 47 people were killed by an explosion after a train carrying crude from the Bakken shale of North Dakota derailed in Lac-Megantic, Quebec in 2013Photo: AFP/SCANPIX
Published 23 October 2019, 13:07Updated 23 October 2019, 13:07