One dead and sixty missing as runaway train

archer wrote:

Rick wrote: Yes LJ, it's much more environnmentally safe to transport Canadian oil by train to the coast, then by ship to China. i'm sure that will work out much better in the long run. :Whistle

It's all going to China anyway.....at least a tank car has a finite amount of oil in it......a pipeline can dump a lot of oil in a very short time.

Not sure where you got your information archer, but we get a lot of ooil from Canada now, and they would like us to buy more.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... n-one-map/

So Obama and Enviros who stopped the Keystone pipeline have the blood of Quebec on their hands?
Pipelines have half the accidents of rail shipped petrol and pipelines tend to avoid population centers.

And pipelines do NOT avoid population centers, and have already spilled MILLIONS of gallons in people's yards, neighborhoods, forests, rivers, etc.... And you've already admitted that the oil is destined for China, and will have no effect on U.S. availability and U.S. prices...

Yeah, that works....

The only blood on anybody's hands is the oil companies and railroads that blew up a shipment in a populated area...

Nice try, though... You keep it up... Sooner or later you'll have a winner...

Pipelines do tend to avoid population centers. Land for right of ways is more expensive in urban areas, but you know that.

Hey, don't let FACTS and photographic evidence get in the way of your ridiculous talking-points:







The only blood on anybody's hands is the oil companies and railroads that blew up a shipment in a populated area...

Nice try, though... You keep it up... Sooner or later you'll have a winner...

Much easier to clean up an oil spill on land than at sea... but don't let that fact muddle your outrage against common sense. Waiting for archer to answer for LJ now...

LadyJazzer wrote: Hey, don't let FACTS and photographic evidence get in the way of your ridiculous talking-points:

The only blood on anybody's hands is the oil companies and railroads that blew up a shipment in a populated area...

Nice try, though... You keep it up... Sooner or later you'll have a winner...

Seriously?

Hey, don't let FACTS and photographic evidence get in the way of your ridiculous talking-points:







The only blood on anybody's hands is the oil companies and railroads that blew up a shipment in a populated area...

Nice try, though... You keep it up... Sooner or later you'll have a winner...

Yes... Seriously!

LadyJazzer wrote: Hey, don't let FACTS and photographic evidence get in the way of your ridiculous talking-points:

Yes... Seriously!

What ridiculous talking points would those be?


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ ... ml?cmp=rss



"Eight more bodies have been found in Lac-Mégantic, Que., bringing the official body count up to 13 people after a runaway train carrying crude oil set off a series of explosions and flattened the town's busy downtown.

Police said some 50 people are missing — a figure that includes the 13 unidentified bodies that have been recovered since the train derailed at about 1 a.m. ET Saturday.

Police are asking family members to provide toothbrushes, combs, or other items that might provide DNA from their missing relatives to help investigators identify the bodies.

About 2,000 of the town's 6,000 residents were forced to leave their homes on Saturday, but 1,500 of those evacuees may be able to return home as soon as Tuesday."...

What LJ's "outrage" pictures neglect to include is data like what percentage of pipelines leak and what percent of railborne petrol leaks. Fact free pontificating. It is expensive to repair the damage from oilspills so companies spend a lot of money preventing them.