Here's some folks to investigate:
http://www.350maine.org/train_blockade
Posted on 07/06/2013 4:37:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Keystone pipeline wasn’t going anywhere near Quebec. It would run from Alberta to the South.
You have to have a lot of heat to get to that point.
Which won't take one drop of oil to Quebec and points farther East.
Stop digging....”several” is subject to interpretation...sheesh
Here's some folks to investigate:
http://www.350maine.org/train_blockade
“#MMA railroad says “small fire on locomotive due 2 broken fuel line” was put out in Nantes b4 tragedy. http://t.co/TtkMT2g1TM “
http://350.org/
My original point was that when we talk about a large fireball, we usually don’t speak of it in terms of several meters. You can get that from a charcoal barbeque.
Buncha morons.
Thought the purpose was to bring Canadian oil down through America for refining, thus eliminating the need to truck or rail vast amounts of crude on less safe transport, such as this one which went horribly wrong?
It still is, but keep in mind that North Dakota is the second largest oil producer in the nation, and that that has developed over the last five years or so (passing Louisiana, California, and Alaska). Pipeline capacity isn't close to keeping up.
The type of crude matters, too, and the heavy Athabascan crude is better suited as a feedstock for refineries geared toward that type of feedstock.
The oil from the Bakken/Three Forks is a light, sweet crude which is more suitable as feedstock for refineries which have traditionally refined Arab Light or North Sea (Brent) oil. Those refineries are on the coasts, and the market is there (very little pipeline capacity headed in that direction, so rail has proven to be the expedient and cheaper alternative).
That said, who in their right mind would leave a train of cars loaded with crude oil and pressurized gas unattended? It'd be a terrorist's wet dream.
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