News Release
BNSF Honors 86 Shippers for Safe Transport of Hazardous Materials at 12th Annual Product Stewardship Awards Event
FORT WORTH, Texas, April 21, 2009:
BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today honored 86 shippers with BNSF's Annual Product Stewardship Award for the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail during 2008.
These 86 award-winning companies have successfully implemented the ethics of Product Stewardship under the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care® initiative. Last year, BNSF presented 74 customers with its Stewardship Award.
"BNSF is pleased that the number of customers who receive its Stewardship Award continues to grow. This clearly demonstrates the industry's focus and commitment to the safe transportation of hazardous materials," Katie Farmer, BNSF vice president, Industrial Products Sales, said at a special presentation at BNSF's corporate headquarters in Fort Worth. "The product stewardship of these 86 customers helps support the safety of our employees, the communities we serve and the environment."
Implemented in 1997, BNSF's Product Stewardship Award is presented to shippers who transported a minimum of 500 loaded tank cars of hazardous materials during the previous year with zero non-accident releases (NARs) (releases that are not caused by a derailment or collision) during the entire transportation cycle.
The honorees for 2008 are:
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Abengoa Bioenergy US |
Linde Lodgepole Energy Marketing LyondellBasell Industries Marathon Petroleum Martin Product Sales, LLC Methanex Methanol Company Montana Refining Company Inc. Moose Jaw Refinery Partnership ULC Murex N.A. Ltd. Nebraska Energy, LLC NorFalco Sales Inc. NOVA Chemicals Olin Corporation Chlor Alkali Division Orica USA Inc. Paramount Petroleum Company PCS Sales, USA Inc. Petrogas Marketing Ltd. Plains LPG Services, LP Plainview Bioenergy, LLC Poet PPG Industries Inc. Praxair Inc. Reagent Chemical & Research Inc. Red Trail Energy SemStream, LP Silver Eagle Refining Inc. Solar Gas Inc. South Hampton Resources Inc. Spectra Energy Empress, LP Sunoco Inc. Targa Resources Inc. Teck Cominco Metals Ltd. Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company The Plaza Group Trenton Agri Products Univar USA Valero Marketing and Supply Company VeraSun Energy Corporation WE Hereford, LLC Western Gas Resources Western Refining Company, LP Williams WRB Refining, LLC |
About BNSF's Environmental Efforts
BNSF Railway's comprehensive approach to environmental stewardship promotes sustainability in the communities it serves today, and gives future generations a cleaner road ahead. Rail is the most fuel efficient mode of surface transportation, moving a ton of freight more than 400 miles on a single gallon of diesel fuel. As the rail industry's intermodal leader, BNSF also leads in environmental stewardship. Each BNSF intermodal train takes more than 280 long-haul trucks off the nation's crowded highways.
About BNSF Railway
A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), BNSF Railway Company operates one of the largest North American rail networks, with about 32,000 route miles in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, carries the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough low-sulfur coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions at www.bnsf.com.
BNSF Headquarters
BNSF Railway Company
2650 Lou Menk Dr. 2nd Floor
Fort Worth, TX 76131-2830
P.O. Box 961057
Fort Worth, TX 76161-0057
Phone: (817) 352-1000
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