News Release
BNSF Honors 76 Shippers for Safe Transport of Hazardous Materials at 14th Annual Product Stewardship Awards Event
FORT WORTH, Texas, May 18, 2011:
BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) today honored 76 shippers with BNSF's Annual Product Stewardship Award for the safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail during 2010.
These 76 award-winning companies have successfully implemented the ethics of Product Stewardship under the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care® initiative.
"We are honoring these 76 customers because of their commitment and focus to the safe transportation of hazardous materials," John Lanigan, BNSF executive vice president and chief marketing officer, said at a special presentation at BNSF's corporate headquarters in Fort Worth. "Our top priority is to ensure safety of our employees, our customer's shipments, 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 during the entire transportation cycle.
The honorees for 2010 performance are:
| ABE South Dakota, LLC Aberdeen Energy, LLC Advanced Bioenergy Afton Chemical Aux Sable Liquid Products Bonanza BioEnergy BP Products North America Bridgeport Ethanol, LLC Canexus Chemicals Cargill, Inc. CF Industries, Inc. CHS, Inc. ConocoPhillips Dakota Gasification Company E Energy Adams, LLC Eastman Chemical Company Elbow River Marketing, L.P. Enterprise Products Partners, L.P. EOG Resources Inc Equa-Chlor, LLC Evonik Cyro, LLC Federated Co-Operatives Ltd. Frontier Refining & Marketing Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc Harmattan Gas Processing, L.P. Hess Corporation Huntsman Corporation Husky Oil Ltd. INEOS Styrenics Inergy, L.P. Irving Oil Ltd. J.R. Simplot Company Kemira Water Solution Keyera Energy L.P. Kinetic Resources LPG LyondellBasell Industries Methanex Mid America Agri Products/Wheatland, LLC |
Moose Jaw Refinery Nebraska Energy, LLC Nedak Ethanol, LLC NGL Supply Company Ltd. NorFalco Sales, Inc. Nova Chemicals Olin Corporation Oxea Corporation PCS Sales (USA), Inc. Petrogas Marketing Ltd. Plains Midstream Canada Plainview Bioenergy, LLC Plymouth Energy, LLC PPG Industries, Inc. PVS Chemicals, Inc. Reagent Chemical & Research, Inc. Red Trail Energy, LLC Redfield Energy, LLC SemStream, L.P. Shell Oil Products Silver Eagle Refining, Inc. Solvay Chemicals, Inc. South Hampton Refining Company Southern Chemical Southwest Iowa Energy, LLC Spectra Energy Empress, L.P. Suncor Energy Marketing, Inc. Targa Resources Tauber Oil Company Teck Metals Ltd, TexPar Energy, LLC The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company The Plaza Group, Inc. U.S. Oil & Refining Co. Univar USA, Inc. WE Hereford, LLC Williams Energy Services, 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.
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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