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misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)
2. Yep, that's how I read this also.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 06:36 PM
Jun 2014

That pipeline will travel through some very pristine & beautiful wilderness. And sounds like much of it will run along the right-of-way where Major Utility power lines & perhaps, but not sure if also natural gas lines already exist.
It does have to get through multi state regulators, but scratchin backs is the name of the power game anyway.

And their argument is that rail cars full of oil can blow up.
No lesser of two evils to choose from since they are both quite equal in their potential harm.

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