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JonLP24

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11. A bigger issue are the oil trains
Fri Nov 14, 2014, 09:33 PM
Nov 2014

The pipeline tries to avoid water & wetlands but these trains go right through down towns, along the Pugent Sound. They can easily bust & rails aren't designed for their kind of traffic. The potential effects are disastrous. They're shredding regs, don't care about investing in technology to make it safer. Just get as much tar sands as quickly to the refinery as possible without taking time or the expense to buy more expensive safer carts.

Ideal it would be no trains or pipelines -- keep that dirty flammable oil in the ground but its not going to happen. If the pipeline decreases the need then this is good news but either way it needs to be addressed, especially if you have genuine concerns for the environment & explosions.

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