This has the makings of a disaster

[ordnance11]

robkelk wrote:

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ordnance11 wrote:

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I was listening on NPR this report segment:
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/25/389008046 ... anker-cars

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/

ordnance11 wrote:

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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.

Who said running oil by pipeline is safer?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14693-wh ... a-pipeline
Now, these problems can be managed and mitigated...provided management keeps an eye and and ear to the problems. It's when they go blind, dumb and deaf, you start getting problems. You'll not have much problems when the pipeline is less than 10 years old. You will have problems as the infrastructure starts deteriorating. And the proposed route runs across some pretty big aquifers. So, the my first question is this: If a big break in the line occurs and you have that heavy oil spilling across rivers, streams and wetlands..who is going to foot the bill? Worse, what happens if it catches on fire and you have dead people? Who are you going to be held accountable?
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