On April 15, 2004, The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) honored 56 recipients with the company's Annual Product Stewardship Award. This award recognizes shippers for their safe transportation of hazardous materials by rail and supports the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care® Initiative.
The 56 award-winning companies that successfully implemented the ethics of Product Stewardship under Responsible Care® were recognized during a special presentation at BNSF's corporate headquarters in Fort Worth . Six companies -- Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc; BP Chemicals; Eka Chemicals, Inc.; Husky Energy; Nexen Chemicals; and Olin Corporation, Chlor Alkali Division -- have won the honor each of the last seven years.
"These awards reflect our customers' continued focus and commitment to the safe transportation of hazardous materials over the past seven years," said George Duggan, vice president, Industrial Product Sales, BNSF. "Their product stewardship ensures the safety of our employees, the public and the environment."
The Product Stewardship Award is presented to shippers who successfully transported a minimum of 500 loaded tankcars of hazardous materials during the 2003 calendar year and who worked with their customers to ensure no non-accident releases (NARs) occurred during the entire transportation cycle. This is the seventh consecutive year that BNSF has given these awards.
The honorees are:
Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation
AGP Corn Processing, Inc.
Agrium
Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc.
Andrews Petroleum, Inc.
Archer Daniels Midland Company
BASF Corporation
Bayer Corporation
Big West Oil, LLC
Bighorn Divide & Wyoming Railroad
BP Amoco Chemical Co.
BT, Inc.
Canadian Enterprise Gas Products
CF Industries, Inc.
Chief Ethanol Fuels, Inc.
CHS, Inc.
Dynegy Midstream Services, LP
Eastman Chemical Company
Eka Chemicals, Inc.
Equistar Chemicals, LP
Ferrel North America
Frontier El Dorado Refining Company
Georgia Gulf Chemicals & Vinyls, LLC
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc.
Great Plains Ethanol
Husky Energy
Inergy Services
Irving Oil, LTD
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JR Simplot Co. - AgriBusiness
Kennecott Utah Copper
Kinetic Resources (LPG)
Lodgepole Energy Marketing, LLC
Murphy Oil USA
Navajo Refining
Nebraska Energy, LLC
Nexen Chemicals
Northern Lights Ethanol, LLC
Nova Chemicals
Olin Corporation, Chlor Alkali Division
Orica Canada, Inc.
PCS Sales (USA), Inc.
Peak Sulfur Services, Inc.
Premcor
Reagent Chemical & Research, Inc.
Sinclair Oil Corporation
Solar Gas, Inc.
Solvay Chemicals, Inc.
Sterling Chemicals, Inc.
Tall Corn Ethanol
Tauber Oil Company
Teck Cominco, LTD
Tesoro Refining & Marketing Co.
Texas Petrochemicals, LP
TexPar Energy, LLC
Western Gas Resources, Inc.
Wynnewood Refining Co.
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A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE:BNI), BNSF operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with about 32,500 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. The railway is among the world's top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, transports the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States . BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions at www.bnsf.com. |
