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A Canadian pipeline company called Enbridge is sneaking a Keystone XL sized pipeline capacity upgrade through existing, leaking pipelines that traverse the headwaters of the Mississippi headwaters in Northern Minnesota. It's called the Alberta Clipper line 67.
There are proposed new pipelines that will join the route with tarsands oil from the Bakken oil shale boom gone bust in North Dakota.
We have totally insane semi-legal proceedings on the permits going on all across the state this week. There is a local MN paper running a series, coincidentally, on the sex trafficking likely following the oil field workers and pipefitters. Good times.
I am okay with Obama's decision and the fact the Senate has enough votes to sustain the veto. The do need to rein in Enbridge at the same time, though.
Enbridge pipelines might supply more oil to Chicago and the Eastern Seaboard than KXL, which would feed export oriented refineries and crude export terminal in Louisiana.
Enbridge exists because it's predecessor that created the older line that run along Line 67 was never able to clean up a 1979 pipeline spill site in MN that still has crude in it today...
You spill oil and don't want to pay? Sell yourself to a new company and avoid all responsibility... someone - usually the same people, will use the very same infrastructure and keep pumping oil through it. Only the names are changed.
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