Some Oil Product Spills in Manitoba Derailment

Canadian National Railway Co said Thursday 13 train cars carrying refinery cracking stock, a petroleum product, derailed Wednesday night in rural Manitoba, and one car spilled some of the product onto the ground.

The derailment was CN Rail's third in a week. On Saturday, an oil train derailed and burned in northern Ontario while a train hauling empty tank cars that had recently held hazardous liquids derailed last Thursday, also in Ontario.

There were no injuries and no threat to the public from Wednesday night's derailment, CN spokesman Brent Kossey said in an email.

In February, another CN oil train derailed and ignited a fire, also along the railway's northern Ontario main line.

On Tuesday, Canada's Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said the company should be called to explain the recent oil-brail accidents before a parliamentary committee.

Kossey said the spill had been contained and CN is working with Manitoba environmental officials to clean up the product from the ground adjacent to the track. No waterways have been impacted.

Reporting by Scott DiSavino in New York and Allison Martell in Toronto