Dr. Nicole Fabricant

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124 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

Dr. Nicole Fabricant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Working People · Train crashes destroyed their towns. Will yours be next? · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Sixty-three of the 74 tanker cars derailed and highly volatile Bakken crude oil they were carrying ignited immediately.

The resulting explosions and fire were enormous, destroying 40 buildings in the town center, including a popular bar that was full of patrons at the time.

47 people were killed.

About 2,000 residents had to be evacuated.

And a large portion of Lac-Mégantic's downtown was obliterated.

It remains a stark example of how these cascading institutional failures, regulatory, corporate, and operational, can lead to catastrophic consequences.

We've got to use whatever tools and abilities we have to bring people together on and offline.

That's why Max and I are working together and bringing our networks together here on The Real News Network.

And that's exactly what we're hoping to do with this podcast.

With the help from the incredible folks at Railroad Workers United, we've brought together a truly historic panel of residents who survived the Lac-Mégantic disaster in Canada and the East Palestine rail disaster here in the United States.

Please introduce yourselves.

OK, so what we're hearing from our friends in East Palestine is the way the government has failed, right?

EPA failed you guys.

There was obvious lies that came out of the EPA not doing the job that they were supposed to do.

And you're talking about the ways communities responded, right?

The kind of overburden that many of these communities have to, you know, take a lot of this on themselves.

So curious to hear from our friends at Lac-Mégantic about the failures at every level of government and the ways in which community had to respond in the aftermath.

Working People · Toxic Avengers: America's poisoned and abandoned communities must stand together or die · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

So when about four years ago, CSX um they had a coal silo that is part of their export pier in Curtis Bay.

When it exploded, it was a wake-up call to the community.

And I think many youth pass a lot of these industrial facilities on their way to school, and it's very naturalized.

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