At the Sunflower Alliance forum, New Dangers of Extreme Energy (March 1, 2014, Richmond), Marilaine Savard from Lac-Mégantic describes how the derailment of a train carrying Bakken shale oil and the subsequent fire devastated her community in July 2013.
Author and oil industry analyst Antonia Juhasz (website) describes the technical and economic driving the push to move millions of barrels of Bakken and tar sands crude by rail through the US and Canada.