Railroad oil tanker cars are parked at a Global Partners building at the Port of Albany on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, Albany, N.Y.The Port of Albany has become a hub for the U.S. oil business, taking shipments from North Dakota's Bakken Shale daily by mile-long trains and shipping it in tankers down the Hudson River to refineries. Opponents of a proposal to build boilers to liquefy heavy crude passing through Albany by rail are drawing attention to the capital’s emergence as a major hub for the transport of oil that’s widely considered risky from an environmental and safety standpoint. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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