[From article]
Oil production booms, but new pipeline construction, such as Keystone XL, has been blocked by liberal activists. Five years ago, very little oil was transported on trains, but in 2013, 1 million barrels a day moved by rail in the US, and in 2014 some 1.5 million barrels of oil per day will do so. Estimates are those figures will double again by 2015.
This is a bonanza to railroads, but to the rest of us this is Railway Russian Roulette. Already there have been three near misses.
[. . .]
Opponents of the Keystone Pipeline pat themselves on the back for keeping the Obama administration paralyzed. Meanwhile, the oil continues to be delivered — in ways more dangerous and dirty.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/05/keystone-pipeline-opponents-causing-environmental-disaster/
Keystone pipeline opponents causing environmental disaster
By Diane Francis
New York Post
October 5, 2014 | 7:41am
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