Stop oil trains to protect lake
By Explorer archives
November 9, 2015
Paul Post’s article “Fuel for Debate” [July/August 2015] quoted Matt Dempsey, a spokesman for the Independent Petroleum Association of America, responding to a report by environmental groups about the threat to Lake Champlain caused by trains carrying oil tankers along the lakeshore. Dempsey said: “The biggest issue with this report is that it doesn’t distinguish…