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Nine years after the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, Canadian Pacific Railway still refuses to accept any responsibility
On July 6, 2013, a runaway train carrying 72 tank cars laden with Bakken shale oil destined for the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John, N.B., derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, a small town in Quebec near the Maine border. The disaster killed 47 people, …