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BNSF Ordered to Pay $394M to Tribe for Oil Train Agreement Violation

July 18, 2024 2 min read
author Anamika Mishra, Sub Editor
A federal judge has decided that BNSF Railway owes the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in Washington State $394.5 million for breaking an agreement that governs railway operations across tribal land. Following a four-day bench trial, U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik of the Western District of Washington arrived at that conclusion, according to The Seattle Times. In September 2012 and May 2021, he had previously declared that the railroad had broken a 1991 agreement by operating crude-oil trains across a less than one-mile section of the Swinomish Reservation. Last year, Lasnik concluded that the railroad had broken the agreement, which permitted only one train of no more than

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