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Canadian Press article, published Tuesday, July 9 on the Calgary Herald website:

The derailment in Quebec of a train carrying crude destined for the Irving Oil refinery in New Brunswick is raising questions about the security of Atlantic Canada's energy supply, with one expert saying it highlights the need to reduce the region's reliance on oil.

Larry Hughes, a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax who studies energy issues, said he is concerned the disaster in Lac-Megantic, Que., will be used to help advance a proposal to ship oil through a pipeline from Alberta to the refinery in Saint John, N.B., on the premise that would be safer.

"There have been a spate of accidents moving oil products by rail and there have been pipeline accidents too," Hughes said Monday.

"Rather that bringing (oil) here for the longer term, how can we get off of it? That's what we need to be asking ourselves."

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