The Transportation Safety Board is investigating a freight train derailment in northern Alberta near Grande Cache.
Board spokesperson Roxanne Daoust said 25 rail cars and a locomotive that were part of a 102-car Canadian National train that was heading from Swan Landing to Grande Prairie left the tracks on Saturday evening.
The cars were carrying fracking sand, which is used by the energy industry for hydraulic fracturing, and Daoust said it doesn’t pose an environmental concern.
She said neither of the two-person crew were injured.
Emile Scheffel with CN said the derailment happened on a branch line, and that railway crews would be working throughout Sunday to remove the damaged cars and fix the track.
Scheffel said there’s no indication that a waterway has been affected.
Grand Cache is about 432 km northwest of Edmonton.
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