News Release
BNSF Honors 93 Shippers for Safe Transport of Hazardous Materials at 13th Annual Product Stewardship Awards Event
FORT WORTH, Texas, April 20, 2010:
BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today honored 93 shippers with BNSF's Annual Product Stewardship Award for the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail during 2009.
These 93 award-winning companies have successfully implemented the ethics of Product Stewardship under the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care® initiative. Last year, BNSF presented 86 customers with its Stewardship Award.
"This is a record year for the number of customers who have received BNSF's Stewardship Award. We are pleased that each year the number of customers receiving this award grows. It demonstrates our customers and the rail industry's focus on 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 93 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) during the entire transportation cycle.
The honorees for 2009 performance are:
| Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation Aberdeen, Energy LLC Agrium USA Inc. ALON USA Aux Sable Liquid Products Basic Chemical Solutions, L.L.C. Bayer Corporation Big West Oil Company Bonanza Bioenergy LLC Bridgeport Ethanol LLC C F Industries, Inc. Canexus Chemicals Centennial Energy LLC Chemtrade Logistics Inc Chevron Products Company Citgo Petroleum Corporation ConocoPhillips Dakota Gasification Company Denver Rock Island Railroad E Energy Adams, LLC Eastman Chemical Company Elbow River Marketing LP Evonik Cyro LLC Exxon Mobil Corporation Federated Co-Operatives Ltd Frontier El Dorado Refining Co. Gary-Williams Energy Corporation Glacial Lakes Energy LLC Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. Harmattan Gas Processing LLC Heartland Grain Fuels LP Holly Corporation Huntsman Corporation Husky Oil Ltd Imperial Oil Limited Ineos LLC Inergy, L.P. Irving Oil J.R. Simplot Company Kemira Water Solutions, Inc. Keyera Energy LP Kinetic Resources LPG Linde North American LLC Lodgepole Energy Marketing Lubrizol Corporation LyondellBasell Industries |
Marathon Petroleum Martin Product Sales LLC Methanex Mid America Agri Products Montana Refining Company Musket Corporation Nebraska Energy LLC Nedak Ethanol LLC NGL Supply Co. Ltd. Noranda, Inc. NOVA Chemicals Corporation Nustar Marketing LLC Olin Corporation Orica USA Inc. Oxea Corporation PCS Sales Inc Petrogas Marketing Ltd. Pioneer Oil, LLC Plains LPG Services LP Plainview Bioenergy LLC The Plaza Group Plymouth Energy LLC PPG Industries Reagent Chemical Red Trail Energy, LLC. Redfield Energy, LLC. SemStream, L.P. Shell Oil Products Silver Eagle Refining Simplot Grower Solutions Siouxland Energy and Livestock Cooperative Solar Gas Solvay Chemicals, Inc. South Hampton Refining Co. Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy, LLC Spectra Energy Targa Resources, Inc Teck Metals Ltd Trenton Agri-Products LLC Univar USA U.S. Oil & Refining Co. Valero Marketing and Supply WE Hereford LLC Western Gas Resources, Inc. Western Refining Williams Energy Services WRB Refining, LLC. |
About BNSF
BNSF Railway is one of North America's leading freight transportation companies operating on 32,000 route miles of track in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is one of the top transporters of consumer goods, grain, industrial goods and low-sulfur coal that help feed, clothe, supply, and power American homes and businesses every day. BNSF and its employees have developed one of the most technologically advanced, and efficient railroads in the industry. And we are working continuously to improve the value of the safety, service, energy, and environmental benefits we provide to our customers and the communities we serve.
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