Canadian regulators said the crude oil on a train that derailed in a Quebec town last July and killed 47 people was as volatile as gasoline, highlighting the potential danger of crude shipments by rail. The report by Canada’s Transportation Safety Board marked the first time that government officials have reported comprehensive test results from the train’s oil, which was traveling from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale formation to a refinery in New Brunswick. The safety board said the oil had a flash point, the temperature at which a fire can ignite, “similar to that of unleaded gasoline.” The results confirmed a Wall Street Journal analysis published last month that showed Bakken oil contains more combustible gases than oil from elsewhere. The samples in the Quebec incident were taken from cars that didn’t explode at the accident site and another train carrying oil of the same origin. Canadian regulators previously […]