Originally Posted by seksi

Both pipeline & rail tank car fossil fuel delivery schemes have hazards, have lead to loss of life and damage to property in leaks and explosions. After the Lac-Mégantic disaster, Keystone XL tastelessly employed the loss of life to show emotionally, if not statistically, that rail was dangerous, and pipelines might not be so bad, just a few small workplaces deaths here and there, going unnoticed by the press.

Here in MN at recent pipeline permitting process hearings we've heard that Clearbrook still does not have the firefighting capacity to put out a fire in the pumping station even 7 years after the fatal explosion. Last year the state legislature got a little more for safety out of the pipelines and the railroads handling alike tarsands from the Canadian and North Dakota booms.

I fucking love environmentalism, because we still have a little wildness left in MN, like the boundary waters canoe area, and tens of thousands of First Nations people that still depend on traditional wild foods like wild rice and game for their sustenance and livelihood.

When people lose that sort of connection with the land, they treat the whole world like its just a concrete parking lot and open sewer to piss on and toss their litter into.

I also love that some of these edges of wilderness have fiber optic to the curb, even in rural areas and on some of the reservations. We need a better business model than resource extraction and toxic sludge transport.

There may not be any money in internet porn, but it doesn't seem to require subsidy or tax-increment financing like pro sports stadiums do, and it doesn't explode or cause traumatic brain injury either.