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Originally Posted by Ducay
We're right to be mad when governments at all levels on both sides of the border have bungled this situation up so much for vanity's sake and a whole host of other bad reasons.
You act like a magical 3rd option exists - no - its either pipe in the ground or it is going by truck and rail. Look at the rail contracts pre-curtailment, which I imagine is where we are heading back to. Those options are so much more environmentally risky and damaging that alone they point out how stupid the pipeline fight is. You've just replaced a safe pipeline with 10,000 trucks and rail cars waiting for an accident to happen.
And never mind the multitude of other impacts these brutal decisions have that only net increase fossil fuel emissions globally. Crippling the supply side domestically does nothing to reduce demand globally except force us all to import more cheap crude from sketchy places and load our roads and rails with a bunch of bombs and leaks waiting to happen.
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I completely agree with you. For what it's worth, I work in this industry and know full well that pipelines are safer and that the oil will flow either way.
However, for this pipeline specifically, public perception is what matters most. In my opinion, the American public do not want this pipeline and we should stop trying to ram it through and then pout when it doesn't go our way. At what point does chasing this project become just a bad business decision because of all the negative press?
This article/survey is from 2017:
Public divided over Keystone XL, Dakota pipelines; Democrats turn decisively against Keystone
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Support for the Keystone XL pipeline has declined among nearly all demographic groups since 2014. As was the case then, there are gender, age and educational differences in attitudes about the project.
Most men favor building the Keystone pipeline, while most women are opposed. And while a majority of those 65 and older favor its construction, those younger than 30 oppose it by about two-to-one (59% to 29%). Adults who have not completed college also are more likely to favor Keystone than are those with at least a four-year degree.
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What's even worse are the many recent pipeline failures on the Keystone PL (and yes I know this is a different pipeline but that does not matter for the general public perception of KXL).
http://boldnebraska.org/keystone-pip...spill-history/