Several oil tankers continued to burn into the early evening Wednesday in eastern Canada, a day after the train carrying them derailed and caught fire, forcing the evacuation of 150 nearby residents and an apology from the chief executive of the train’s operator. A total of 17 cars, including five tankers carrying crude oil and four propane tankers, went off the tracks at 7:06 p.m. local time Tuesday about, 2.8 miles east of Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, near the Maine border, according to CN. The accident comes in a country still reeling from the derailment of a train in Quebec which left 47 people dead last summer when its crude cargo exploded in the center of the town of Lac-Mégantic. It also follows on the heels of a Dec. 30 explosion in North Dakota after a collision between two trains, one carrying a cargo of oil tankers. A boom […]