This has the makings of a disaster

[robkelk]

I was listening on NPR this report segment:

http:////www.npr.org/player/embed/389008046/389023527

I believe our Canadian brethren here is very familiar with this story: Especially Lac-Megantic on July 6, 2013. ...

There was another derailment-spill-fire incident just as big, two weeks ago ... but there wasn't a town nearby, so nobody cared.

The Globe and Mail (Canada's newspaper of record), February 16: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... e23011758/

Logan Darklighter wrote:This would be less of a problem if we were allowed to build any pipelines or new refineries closer to the sites of extraction. 

But we have built nothing like that in over 30 years. We haven't been allowed to. 

The problem with building pipelines would be NIMBY. Oil refineries built closer to the extraction sites would be more technologically feasible, but you're talking a huge capital investment.

So it was NIMBY that caused Obama to veto construction of a new pipeline this month?

There's more than just one excuse to not build pipelines - which keeps the oil flowing the unsafe way.
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Rob Kelk
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