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cali

(114,904 posts) Sun Jul 7, 2013, 11:14 AM Jul 2013

Obviously neither, but oil pipelines suck. Rail transport of oil sucks. Our dependency on oil isn't going away anytime soon.

What's the solution?

The IAE says that rail incidents are more frequent but pipeline incidents spill considerably more oil. Rail accidents pose a greater risk to life.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/14/pipeline-oil-spills-rail-spills_n_3273725.html

More and more oil is being transported by rail and the route is often on dilapidated infrastructure near population centers. That's clearly not tenable.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-13/amid-u-dot-s-dot-oil-boom-railroads-are-beating-pipelines-in-crude-transport

http://www.pembina.org/blog/732

This is just bad news any which way you look at it.

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Would you rather have a pipeline spill or a train derailment? [View all] cali Jul 2013 OP

This will be one of the rationales for approving Keystone XL. dawg Jul 2013 #1

Call it a Morton's Fork dilemma or cali Jul 2013 #17

I'll take the Blow on the Head pscot Jul 2013 #3

lol. I still love Monty Python. cali Jul 2013 #4

Works for me pscot Jul 2013 #5

I once read a piece, and I wish I could remember where. Savannahmann Jul 2013 #6

I don't know. Savannahmann Jul 2013 #13

Interesting little fact was laundry_queen Jul 2013 #7

I'm quite sure the same holds true for U.S. rail transport of oil cali Jul 2013 #9

Does Canada train blast show danger of oil transport in US? cali Jul 2013 #10

Pipelines can also be dangerous suffragette Jul 2013 #11

Is an alien invasion an option? Katashi_itto Jul 2013 #12

depends on the aliens. cali Jul 2013 #14

That's the issue I've been wrestling with - jazzimov Jul 2013 #15

I'm still wrestling with it. I live disturbingly close cali Jul 2013 #18