#Lac Mégantic

[chambej]

2023 - Parc National du Mont-Mégantic (3 de 3)

Nouveau et dernier photoreportage au SEPAQ Mégantic. / New and last photoreportage at SEPAQ Mégantic

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#Canada #Hiver #Lac Mégantic #Parc #Park #QC #Raquettes #Reportages #Sentier #Snow shoe #Trails #Voyage #Winter

[janefondue]

Seen on a sunny Sunday

#Lac Mégantic #art #public art #quebec #on a sunny day #train derailment #train disaster #crude oil #canada

[walrusmagazine]

Ten Years after Disaster, Lac-Mégantic Is a Model for a Greener Future

Rebuilding from scratch meant the Quebec community could become more sustainable than ever

Rebuilding the downtown from scratch meant that the city planners, architects, and engineers involved in the project could take the biggest step possible toward sustainability: not only constructing the microgrid but also rebuilding streets on an axis with the lake to maximize airflow, constructing wider bike paths lined with trees, installing rainwater management, and prioritizing environmental education initiatives.

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Illustration by Jarred Briggs (jarredbriggs.com)

#Environment #Lac-Mégantic #Pollution #Oil spill #Sustainability #illustration #July/August 2023 #Caitlin Stall-Paquet #Jarred Briggs

[survivingcapitalism]

After Jean-Philippe Chabot’s novel Le Chemin d’en haut, in 2021, another work placing the Irving group of companies at the centre of its concerns came out it Québec: Mégantic: Un train dans la nuit, a graphic novel written by Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny with illustrations by Christian Quesnel.

The book deals with the devastating fire caused by a transport train carrying flammable crude oil, which occurred at Lac-Mégantic in the night of July 6th, 2013. The fire killed dozens, including several subsequent suicides, and plunged an entire community into a pit of despair. This event is emblematic the negligence of the industry with respect to the oversight and maintenance of its equipment. These economies of scale are meant to satiate the financial spreadsheets of billionaires tied to the firms involved in such convoys, like those of Hunter Harrison, William Ackman and other shareholders of CP, as well as partner Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway (MMA) and its primary beneficiary Edward Burkhardt and, by extension, their client, Irving Oil. The disaster also revealed the complicity of Canadian political authorities, who allowed stacks of reports to pile up – all of which showed the deficiencies of the rail system – and the failures of the industry to regulate itself. Several federal transportation ministries, if they’d cared to, could reasonably have predicted the occurrence of such a catastrophe. Moreover, one needed not ask whether such a calamity was going to happen, but merely await notification of the date, time and location of an inevitably fatal accident.

The nuanced, sobering illustrations by Christian Quesnel confer a psychological depth and, at times, a synoptic understanding of Saint-Cerny’s argumentative positions previously articulated in 2018 in a book-length essay titled Mégantic. We owe both titles to Éditions Écosociété. The former was translated and published in English in 2020 by Talonbooks [as Mégantic: A Deadly Mix of Oil, Rail, and Avarice] and the graphic novel will appear this year with publisher Between the Lines [as A Train in the Night: The Tragedy of Lac-Mégantic]. In Quebec, the Mégantic essay was a finalist for the Publishers Prize (2019), as well as the Governor General Prize and the Pierre-Vadeboncoeur Prize (both in 2018).

In both the essay and graphic novel, the structure of the text follows the planned route of the crude oil cargo, from its extraction in North Dakota – where workers are subjected to negative effects of pollutants – up to the refinery in Saint-John controlled by Irving Oil. The route was destined for passage through the eastern townships of Quebec, including the municipality of Lac-Mégantic.

#lac megantic #Lac-Mégantic #Irving #Irving Oil #New Brunswick #nb media co-op #NB Poli #Canpoli #NBpoli #oil

[emphasisonthehomo]

Me: "I should be writing rn."

Also Me: *elbow deep in a research hole about the Lac-Mégantic train crash*

#aron's opinonion #my conclusion: it's fucked up

[1863-project]

More on the recently averted railroad strike, including the story of an engineer who died of a heart attack because BNSF called him in and prevented him from going to a doctor's appointment.

There's a reason people leave freight. If you can get into passenger service, you get a more regular schedule. With freight, you're on call whenever they want, and you're often away in hotels instead of with your family. Union Pacific and BNSF instituted point policies in 2020 and 2022 respectively that docked employees for missing on-call phone calls or not making it in on time, or for missing days due to medical appointments or even hospitalization. UP's was bad, and BNSF's managed to be even worse. Oh, yeah, you could gain points you lost back at BNSF if you agreed to be on call for FOURTEEN STRAIGHT DAYS.

I'd like to see the finer details of the deal, because it does appear to have made some gains, but there's clearly still a long way to go. The freight companies need to hire more people, pay better wages, provide more sick days and healthcare coverage...and instead they keep cutting people, because they want to run miles-long freight trains with just one person, which the unions successfully fought off here for now. Lac-Mégantic happened in 2013 because that train was manned by one overworked, fatigued person.

These people deserve better, and although they made some gains here they still deserve a lot more.

#I like trains

[wttt-dirus-work]

So we got wildfire in the La Verendrye Wildlife reserve....

This is our next temp

Fumée means smoke

Alertes météo grave means severe weather alert

We have a smoke alert going on, and we need firefighter from fucking Europe to help us

They had to evacuate municipalities and left the pets there (some Refuges got to them in time and put them in foster families(?) until they can go back

I know you californians/westerners are used to it, but when our last big wildfire was around 1999 in Québec province.... the last really big thing (except the floods in 2017-2019-2023) was in 2013, au Lac Mégantic (chemical train caused an explosion and so many death, that was one of our biggest tragedy)

My family are okay, we got enough lakes between us and the fire but man it's terrifying...

We'll loose so much forest... we have to let little town burn down because there's a factory of chemical close to it (they're keeping the fire away to stop that ecological catastrophe from happening)

Idk what bad things are happening for you guys, but stay safe

#wildfire #quebec #abitibi

[protoslacker]

Bomb Trains

On certain cold nights I can hear the steel wheels of trains sounding along the rails at the Conway Yard along the Ohio River. The Ohio River begins at Pittsburgh goes north for a while and makes a sharp turn around Monaca. Not far from Monaca is a recently opened Shell Petrochemical Complex where  fracked gas turned to ethylne.

I estimate that the Conway Yard is about midway between Pittsburgh and Monaca and the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio is a similar distance. All of it is in my neck of the woods

On the evening of Febuary 3rd there was a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Twenty of the cars of the fifty car train carried toxic chemicals. Five of the derailed cars carried vinyl chloride. The decision was made to make a controlled release of the vinyl chloride. A fire ensued. A piece at CCN takes an interesting angle, After a train derailment, Ohio residents are living the plot of a movie they helped make.

I first learned about the derailment in East Palestine on Tumblr at least a couple of days after the derailment. And that fact concerns me. There is significant reporting about the derailment now and much to find out and to think about.

Over the years my awareness of significant risks in rail transportation has heightened A couple of things. First in 2006 a developer grading a site for a Walmart caused a landslide which closed a highway and the Norfolk Southern rail line not too far from the Conway Yard. There is an excellent picture posted at USGS, Landslide at site of former Dixmont State Hospital, Pennsylvania. At hearing prior the development's approval there warnings about the potentials for landslides were expressed vigorusly. The closure of the rail line caused significant economic losses  by delays in shipments to cities to the East Coast.

There's a bottle neck for rail traffic around Pittsburgh, which you can glean from a railway map, here. With the production of Bakken shale oil and Canadian tar sands oil the dangers of rail disasters became widely known. Especially after  Lac-Mégantic rail disaster when term "bomb trains" became popular. Now when driving around Pittsburgh there are some places trains travel that make me shudder.  Most of usdon’t live far from rail tracks, so rail safety really is kind of important to us.

#trains #safety #regulation #profit #influence #industrial chemicals

[tengomilpalabrasparati]

Tal día como hoy 6 de julio ...

2016: Se hace público el 'informe Chilcot' en el que se recoge el resultado de la investigación sobre la inadecuada participación del Reino Unido en la Guerra de Irak iniciada en 2003.

2013: Explota un tren cargado de petróleo al paso por el centro de la localidad de Lac-Mégantic, al sur de Canadá, causando la muerte al menos a 50 personas (20 confirmadas y 30 desaparecidas).

1988: Explota la plataforma petrolífera Piper Alpha, en el Mar del Norte, a unos 180 km de la Costa de Aberdeen (Escocia). A lo que siguió un incendio y hundimiento de la torre de perforación. Ciento sesenta y seis hombres perdieron la vida más uno al día siguiente. Casi todos los supervivientes tenían fracturas y quemaduras.

1964: Se estrena en Reino Unido la película 'A hard day’s night', del grupo de rock The Beatles.

1957: Se conocen Paul McCartney y John Lennon en una actividad escolar realizada en una iglesia de Liverpool (Reino Unido). Posteriormente fundarán la exitosa banda de rock The Beatles.

1885: Louis Pasteur administra una vacuna contra la rabia al niño Joseph Meister, con un virus de la rabia estudiado en conejos y debilitado posteriormente.

1864: Se funda la Cruz Roja Española.

1573: El español Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera funda la villa de Córdoba en la actual provincia de Córdoba (Argentina).

985: Tras un asedio de ocho días a Barcelona, el caudillo árabe Almanzor, comandante las tropas de las tropas del Califato de Córdoba, toma la ciudad.

(Louis Pasteur administra una vacuna contra la rabia al niño Joseph Meister, con un virus de la rabia estudiado en conejos y debilitado posteriormente)

#Tal día como hoy 6 de julio ... #efemérides

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[chambej]

2023 - Parc National du Mont-Mégantic (2 de 3)

Reportage sur le 2e sentier (Les Cimes) du Parc National de Mégantic. / Report on the 2nd trail (Les Cimes) of the Mégantic National Park.

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[lolo-workshop-of-madness]

You know isekai protagonists?

Why do they never show them sad or just thinking about the fact that they are never going to see their family again, nor their home, hometown, country and everything they have ever known up until they died.

It makes no sense .

Just thinking about it in depth has made me want to cry. I cannot put into words just how devastated I would be.

EVERYTHING and I do mean everything from their past life is gone and they don’t even have a second thought. They just move on straight away, I understand not feeling it much at first, but after a month or two (since they might have much more important things to worry about, like survival) , they have to have realized it, they must have realized they’ll never get to see their loved ones again, their parents , their friends and family… they didn’t even get to say goodbye!

And some of them are just like , “oh yeah I died, yeah. All good.” There’s no , or little, struggle with having a lot more labour to do, especially in fantasy worlds where there isn’t as good sanitary conditions , work conditions and general quality of life. So many things are different and from what I’ve seen, it’s like they have no struggling to figure things out.

No utter confusion as to how magic works, even though it’s been impossible for all intents and purposes for their entire life!

No language problems, though I let that slide because well it’s fantasy and “god” might have taken care of that, that one can have an explanation as to why everyone talks English or Japanese. But it’s really a shame how much wasted potential there is, what if the other world speaks English, but the main character isn’t fluent in it? What if their first language is French or German or something else than the common language of the other world?

Another thing regarding the unbothered main characters on never seeing their home again is that they rarely talk about being homesick and stuff, or at least that’s what I’ve heard about and seen. They just die , are reborn and become some overpowered god or just live a chill life without missing their home? I don’t believe it.

Anyways, I’m making a story about some 17 year old gal who died in the disaster in Lac-Mégantic in 2013, she doesn’t know that at first though, she was asleep since it was 1AM, she gets reincarnated with little to no explanation by the .. angel ? God? Is partially covered in burn scars she doesn’t know where came from, And is stuck in a forest for a good week, doesn’t know what can be eaten and what can’t so starves until someone finds her. Ever waning crescent, she has a dream; that dream tells her how she died , but it doesn’t tell it explicitly and doesn’t show much at a time. This leads to confusion and mental anguish. She’s also pretty much the only “human” in a good 20km radius.

If you can’t find the story you want , make it!

#rant post #isekai

[marcleblanc]

[opennewspaper]

After deadly oil train wreck, change comes slowly for devastated city

Freight trains still rumble through Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, a daily reminder to its 5,750 residents of the accident that shattered a warm summer night, and their city, 10 years ago. In the early hours of July 6, 2013, dozens of people were socializing at the Musi-Café bar, while others slept in their apartments nearby — unaware that a runaway freight train was barreling toward them at about 65…

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#change #City #deadly #devastated #oil #slowly #train #wreck

[gonzalo-obes]

IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL DIA 6 DE JULIO DE 2023

Día Internacional del Beso Robado, Día Internacional de Los Beatles, Día Mundial de la Zoonosis, Año Internacional del Mijo y Año Internacional del Diálogo como Garantía de Paz.

San Isaias, Santa Goretti, San Norberto y Santa Dominica.

Tal día como hoy en el año 985: Tras un asedio de ocho días a Barcelona, el caudillo árabe Almanzor, comandante de las tropas del Califato de Córdoba, toma la ciudad.

En 1573: El español Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera funda la villa de Córdoba en la actual provincia de Córdoba (Argentina).

En 1864: Se funda la Cruz Roja Española.

En 1885: Louis Pasteur administra una vacuna contra la rabia al niño Joseph Meister, con un virus de la rabia estudiado en conejos y debilitado posteriormente.

En 1957: Se conocen Paul McCartney y John Lennon en una actividad escolar realizada en una iglesia de Liverpool (Reino Unido). Posteriormente fundarán la exitosa banda de rock The Beatles.

En 1988: Explota la plataforma petrolífera Piper Alpha, en el Mar del Norte, a unos 180 km de la Costa de Aberdeen (Escocia). A lo que siguió un incendio y hundimiento de la torre de perforación. Ciento sesenta y seis hombres perdieron la vida más uno al día siguiente. Casi todos los supervivientes tenían fracturas y quemaduras.

En 2013: Explota un tren cargado de petróleo al paso por el centro de la localidad de Lac-Mégantic, al sur de Canadá, causando la muerte al menos a 50 personas (20 confirmadas y 30 desaparecidas).

En 2016: Se hace público el 'informe Chilcot' en el que se recoge el resultado de la investigación sobre la inadecuada participación del Reino Unido en la Guerra de Irak iniciada en 2003.

[impossiblestrangercollectionable]

Bomba atomica, e pure sporca

Bomba atomica sporca negli aerei di linea, forse anche kamikaze con bagaglio a mano

Sembra si stia chiarendo in che modo pensano di colpire l’Europa ( e non solo l’Europa, probabilmente anche le Americhe) con l’atomica senza che si possa fare niente per fermarli: “Lac-Mégantic” Si, hanno intenzione di rifarlo, ma non con un treno, come a Lac-Mégantic, dove oltretutto mancò la carica radioattiva perché il contrabbandiere di uranio non si trovava più sul treno al momento dell’incendio Questa volta useranno degli aerei, aerei di linea e privati per il loro attacco atomico a tradimento, quindi voi capite che non sarebbe possibile intervenire in nessuna maniera, quindi allarme rosso fuoco per tutti gli aereoporti del mondo, controlli massicci soprattutto per gli aerei dei privati, soprattutto quelli che volano a bassa quota o che volano in addestramento (sopra casa mia ne volano sempre tanti), allarme rosso fuoco anche per l’aeronautica e gli aerei super veloci, non dimenticate mai che il sabotaggio di veicoli è un classico di ogni guerra sporca Controllate accuratamente cosa trasportano gli aerei perché una bomba sporca non ha la forma di una normale bomba atomica, può essere molto più piccola e più leggera e può essere nascosta ovunque, anche dentro un bagaglio, una cassa, qualunque cosa che possa per diritto essere trasportata su un aereo di linea o su un aereo che trasporti merce Non sottovalutate questa informazione perché potrebbe essere quella esatta L’altra possibilità sarebbe il lancio da una piattaforma in mezzo al mare, oppure una portaerei o una nave da crociera sequestrata da dirottatori, ma in questo caso si tratterebbe di missili  

Mi arriva adesso una nuova informazione: potrebbero essere dei kamikaze e la bomba potrebbe essere nel bagaglio a mano oppure essere della gente che si porta dietro una bomba nel bagaglio a mano e non sa di averla Fate controlli accurati e non trascurate nulla

Il mondo é nelle vostre mani, se fallirete moriremo tutti