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Originally Posted by seksi
Rail tank cars filled with tar sands products are unsafe, e.g. Lac-Mégantic killed 47 people. Rail is just as dangerous as pipelines!
Light sweet crude is preferable if you need petroleum-based energy, it is cleaner to produce, and today it is on sale. Turns out there is less demand, and the speculators bubble has burst for one reason or another (petrodollar warfare with Russia?).
Fact is Obama will veto Keystone XL and the Democrats in the U.S. Senate will be able to sustain the veto. Hopefully the Senate and the Obama administration will look into the scope creep on the Enbridge border crossing permits, too. |
Oil from the oil sands is "sour crude". Almost all of the oil from the Middle East is also sour crude. The oil from Mexico, Venezuela and the Gulf of Mexico is sour crude.
That covers much of the oil imported into the US. So you can stop importing our sour crude oil and instead ship it in by tanker from all of those other countries. Because oil tankers are super safe and never spill, right?
Re: your link above:
The train that exploded in Lac Megantic was carrying oil from the Bakken Formation in North Dakota. The oil from that location is sweet crude.
And rail is
more dangerous than pipelines!
So wrong on many points.
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