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SharonAnn

(13,773 posts)

16. Trains run through the middle of towns/cities. Pipelines usually don't.

Reply to cali (Reply #2)

Sun Jul 7, 2013, 02:56 PM

Jul 2013

Pipeline ruptures can cause much larger oil spills but fewer lives lost when they occur.

Long-term damage/illness/death would need to be factored in.

As a culture, we usually abhor sudden, unexpected deaths from industrial accidents. We often pay less attention to long-term results.

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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

Yes, and the Quebec derailment will also be used to push the Northeast Pipeline cali Jul 2013 #2

Trains run through the middle of towns/cities. Pipelines usually don't. SharonAnn Jul 2013 #16

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

that is interesting. Of course, I don't know enough to know if something like that is viable cali Jul 2013 #8

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

Pipelines, especially new ones, tend not to be routed through the center of communities FarCenter Jul 2013 #19