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  • Bomb Trains in New York (2015)
  • Short | 12 min | Documentary, Short, News
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Bomb Trains in New York (2015)
Short | 12 min | Documentary, Short, News
While the nation has been focused on the risk of the Keystone pipeline, the oil industry has quietly been shipping millions of barrels of oil a day by rail --- an expensive and dangerous process that has received little attention. In ...See moreWhile the nation has been focused on the risk of the Keystone pipeline, the oil industry has quietly been shipping millions of barrels of oil a day by rail --- an expensive and dangerous process that has received little attention. In recent years, there have been so many train car derailments, accidents and explosions, that people have begun calling these cars "bomb trains." Right now in upstate New York, dangerous fracked oil is being transported right next to a affordable housing project. The 179, mostly African American, families that reside there live with nothing but a chain-link fence to protect them from the billon gallons of crude rumbling down the tracks in their backyard and from the nearby oil processing facility. Last April, I visited the community and interviewed elected officials, residents, environmental regulators, train car mechanics and local journalists who share a common mission: to keep their communities from being blown off the map. Albany is just one example, an entry point into a larger question of environmental impact on communities of color -- this is happening across the country. See less
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Director
Messiah Rhodes
Writers
Muna Mire (co-writer) | Messiah Rhodes (co-writer)
Producer
Messiah Rhodes
Editor
Messiah Rhodes
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Updated May 11, 2015

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