The Legislative Gazette | July 6, 2015 | Column by Nick Musacavge

Two years ago Monday, 47 people died in Lac-Megantic, Quebec when 63 train cars carrying crude oil toppled off of the rails and exploded midnight. Today, about forty activists marched on Eagle Street outside the Governor's Mansion in remembrance of those lost in the accident while also protesting the use of oil train cars in New York.

Times Union | April 1, 2015 | Column by Brian Nearing

Opponents also rallied outside Albany City Hall against oil trains

Vimeo | March 11, 2015 | Video by Messiah Rhodes

Right now in upstate New York, dangerous fracked oil is being transported right next to a affordable housing project. The 179, mostly African American, families that reside there live with nothing but a chain-link fence to protect them from the billon gallons of crude rumbling down the tracks in their backyard and from the nearby oil processing facility.

Last April, I visited the community and interviewed elected officials, residents, environmental regulators, train car mechanics and local journalists who share a common mission: to keep their communities from being blown off the map.