Railroads Shipping Oil Face New Costs After Quebec Fire: Energy

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New rules will boost costs to transport crude by rail in North America as trains are forecast to carry as much as 2 million barrels a day, about equal to daily output from Norway.

“You’re going to see a massive flood of spending to get ahead of these government regulations,” Jerry Swank, managing partner at Dallas-based Swank Capital, said yesterday during the Bloomberg Link Oil & Gas Conference in Houston.