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To: Brumar89 who wrote (642951)	1/21/2012 12:52:48 AM
From: i-node	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 1571364

>>> but the oil going through Kitimat would then need to be shipped across the Pacific. Over the last 20 years, in the US, all pipeline spills have averaged less than 9 Olympic pools full of petroleum products and crude ANNUALLY. What is practically always overlooked in media accounts is that it is almost ALL cleaned up. IN the end a tiny portion of that ends up being any kind of threat. So, maybe it ends up being 1 swimming pool a year that actually poses any kind of threat. Unless it is IN THE WATER, of course -- which is where the spills will occur when they start shipping it across the ocean. That just doesn't seem like much given the volume of petroleum products shipped via pipeline each year over the huge expanse of the nation. Given that newer pipelines are designed to be more resistant to spills, there is just no way in hell the cancellation of the XL Pipeline on environmental grounds makes any sense at all or approaches a sensible tradeoff for the benefits it would have provided. The Republicans ought to work Obama over on this issue. They have the upper hand because most sensible people know it should have been built.

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