CPKC railway hit with violation notice after derailment in Maine

MONTREAL –

State authorities in Maine have hit Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. with a violation discover over fallout from its cleanup efforts after a freight practice went off the tracks final month.

On April 15, a CPKC practice hit a observe washout in a wooded space close to Moosehead Lake in northwestern Maine, some 220 kilometres southeast of Quebec City, setting a number of automobiles ablaze.

Government officers say they despatched a discover of violation to the railway after heavy building gear deployed to entry the crash web site crushed culverts and brought on a major quantity of sediment to enter streams, in violation of a air pollution management legislation.

Melanie Loyzim, commissioner of the state’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, despatched a second letter instructing CPKC to implement erosion management measures instantly.

CPKC stated final month that locomotives and 4 derailed lumber automobiles went up in flames, with crews utilizing booms — absorbent, tubelike limitations — to include spilled diesel gas.

The Calgary-based railway stated three crew members had been taken to a neighborhood hospital for non-life-threatening accidents and launched the identical day.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed May 2, 2023.