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Rail cars carrying hazardous material have derailed and burst into flames in a remote area of North Dakota.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/Keq48

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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

The morons in charge see short term expenses and not the future consequences of their actions.

Also, between insurance and shoving the costs of cleanup onto various local, state, and federal governments, the cost of these derailments might even be lower than the cost of maintaining these tracks. But I'm speculating pretty hard there.

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