About 1.2M litres of oil leaked in last week’s Saskatchewan train derailment, province says
The Saskatchewan government says an estimated 1.2 million litres of oil leaked from a CP train that derailed near the hamlet of Guernsey last week.
That’s less than the estimated 1.5 million litres that is believed to have leaked in a separate train derailment, also near Guernsey, last December.
The cause of both derailments is under investigation by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
«The amount of recovered oil [in Thursday’s crash] is currently being determined and is complicated by the fact that a significant portion burned off during the incident,» a spokesperson for the provincial government said Tuesday.
The oil caught fire in the crash and continued to burn into the next day.
