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In reply to the discussion: Say whether you support/oppose the Keystone pipeline before Obama gives you the right answer [View all]Archaic
(273 posts)There is no track record to show that any energy company will decide to be proactive in a disaster.
Coal companies had to be forced to clean up. They were fine externalizing their costs to the public by dumping their pollution, unscrubbed, into the environment for all of us to breathe.
Oil companies continue to have pipeline / tanker / oil rig problems. And only clean it up, or hide it to stop the temporary PR issue. They will sell everything they pump. The stuff that is lost doesn't go to market, so they don't care about it. They only plug leaks to get their product back to market.
If these guys want their pipeline so bad, they should run it themselves, at their cost, to Nova Scotia, and put up their own damn port and refineries.
I don't understand why we're subsidizing the cost of refining their product sooner by allowing it over our land. They've already had pipeline problems, why should they build more of them?