Canadian Pacific keeps emergency pans secret

Canadian Pacific keeps emergency pans secretCanadian Pacific Railway has said that it has appropriate emergency-response plans in place but cannot reveal them in the public domain due to national security considerations.

The company said that railroad has an emergency-response plan that determines how to handle a derailment or accident on its network. Railway Director of Government and Public Affairs Randy Marsh said that the emergency-response plan is in place but it is not public information. While speaking at a forum in the Old County Courthouse at Elizabethtown, he pointed out that Canadian Pacific is serious about emergency planning.

"Canadian Pacific does have an emergency-response plan. It's an organic document that's modified over time. I can't share that with you, but every municipality should have an emergency-response plan," Marsh said.

Canadian Pacific has a command center with a 24/7 on-call response system. He also pointed out that survives like fire chiefs can obtain density reports of the most recent six months of rail traffic in their areas but the information is not available in the public domain.

Meanwhile, the country's second-largest rail operator has said that it will buy back up to 5.3 million shares