A Novel Way to Fight the Keystone XL Pipeline

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8. Rail or truck . . .

. . . won't happen or they'd be doing it already. Bitumen (asphalt) is particularly tough to ship by truck or rail other than in small quantities.

Moving the route costs the company lots of money in new route studies and wasted effort on obtaining easements along the existing route.

On the other hand, throwing another windmill or solar barn in the way is cheap, relative to the cost of said studies.

Thus the strategy, to force President Obama to either take a stance to halt this (which is within his power) or force him to tear down relatively greener energy sources standing in the way (if he does that, we know exactly what he thinks on climate science, regardless of pretty speeches).

And this should be an issue put to any Democratic (or indeed any) candidate. The hard question is: what are you going to do about this pipeline, which ships oil which should stay in the ground forever? Any answer other than "oppose it" means the candidate is not serious about anthropomorphically-induced climate change.