I-Team: Feds will delay “Bomb Train” Decision until Christmas
by Mike Magnoli, July 25, 2022
“Right now the only Liquified Natural Gas on this route through the Treasure Coast is stored in what are called tender 
cars- they’re directly behind locomotives, which use the LNG for fuel, but if the Biden administration doesn’t act soon, energy companies will have the freedom to haul full tankers of LNG up and down the state on this stretch.
“You will have a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion,” Scofield said, “Otherwise known as a bleve.”
Scofield has been involved in the fight against LNG for nearly twenty years, before she even moved to Florida. In her native Massachusetts, an energy company wanted to store massive quantities of liquid natural gas on the banks of the Taunton River, Scofield and other protestors there managed to kill the project. Now she’s fighting LNG here in South Florida, arguing it’s an accident waiting to happen.
“How can you run a passenger rail at 110 on the same track as LNG at 40 miles per hour, that’s a scheduling nightmare,” Scofield said.
Read/watch the story here:
https://cbs12.com/news/cbs12-news-i-team/i-team-feds-will-delay-bomb-train-decision-christmas-florida-liquefied-natural-gas
Learn more about the Florida Alliance for Safe Trains:
https://www.flsafetrains.com