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You don’t need to understand French to understand this short video taken during the “Catastrophe à Lac-Mégantic.” [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Q7d8c24T0 ]  Some background. The opening speaker at the “Oil-by-Rail: What’s Next” meeting in Albany on October 24 th was a citizen from the small village of Lac Mégantic, Canada. Marilaine Savard, community leader from Lac-Mégantic--Quebec’s Citizens Committee--shared that community’s journey since the July 6, 2013 rail disaster. Marilaine showed the above video taken by a friend to a group of concerned groups from around New York State. Her friend Adrien Aubert, risking life and limb, started taping this video from his cell phone immediately after the explosion—but it has only been recently released online. It’s raw and brutal, which can be felt regardless of what language you speak and seen when Adrien turns the camera on himself near the end of this powerful video. The facts of the disaster are quickly summed up in...