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Failure to build Keystone XL pipeline expected to result in 28 fatalities a year

Posted on 11/18/14 at 1:48 pm
Posted by danjones
Member since Sep 2014
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Posted on 11/18/14 at 1:48 pm
due to the expected increase of dangerous oil-rail traffic, per an official State Department study. View the source below. LINK

View more facts from official sources on Keystone XL here
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
112422 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 1:49 pm to
Human life is not relevant to the environment warriors
Posted by TT9
Global warming
Member since Sep 2008
90384 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 1:50 pm to
Human life is what we're trying to protect.
Posted by Homesick Tiger
Greenbrier, AR
Member since Nov 2006
56121 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 1:53 pm to
quote:

Human life is what we're trying to protect.


Yep, that's why it's safer to build a pipeline thru sparsely populated areas as opposed to running oil trains thru the middle of a mega-metropolis.

Posted by dante
Kingwood, TX
Member since Mar 2006
10669 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 1:56 pm to
How many unemployed people will die each year from not having a job if the pipeline is not built?
Posted by funnystuff
Member since Nov 2012
8946 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 1:58 pm to
none?
Posted by bamarep
Member since Nov 2013
52352 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:01 pm to
28 human lives to save one speckled dick salamander? Sounds like a good trade-off to me.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
138911 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:03 pm to
quote:

Human life is not relevant to the environment warriors


Ironically not building the pipeline is more harmful to the environment.
Posted by UncleFestersLegs
Member since Nov 2010
16380 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:04 pm to
quote:

Human life is what we're trying to protect.

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The remaining portion of the Keystone pipeline project, if completed, will be fewer than 1,200 miles long — just a fraction of the existing 2.6 million miles of oil and gas pipelines running beneath our feet in the United States.

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Earlier this year, the State Department released an environmental review that concluded the Keystone XL very likely wouldn't have a significant effect on greenhouse gas emissions because the oil will ultimately be produced, even if the pipeline is not built. But environmental groups object to that conclusion and want the oil left in the ground.


Yeah ok
Posted by C
Houston
Member since Dec 2007
28159 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:05 pm to
The state department has no leg to stand on. This is just a bailout to the rail industry.
Posted by Choctaw
Pumpin' Sunshine
Member since Jul 2007
77774 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:05 pm to
quote:

Human life is what we're trying to protect.




that's cute
Posted by Al Dante
Member since Mar 2013
1860 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:11 pm to
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Posted by TT9
Human life is what we're trying to protect.




How is not building it protecting human life?
Posted by ljhog
Lake Jackson, Tx.
Member since Apr 2009
20266 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:13 pm to
Democrat war on drivers!
Posted by mmcgrath
Indianapolis
Member since Feb 2010
37005 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:18 pm to
quote:

Failure to build Keystone XL pipeline expected to result in 28 fatalities a year

Two Problems:
1) When you take out non-rail related incidents the deaths drop to 13.
2) The death rate includes trespasser deaths. If this includes suicides, then obviously the rate wouldn't increase due to increased rail traffic.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
112422 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:22 pm to
quote:

Human life is what we're trying to protect.


bullshite.

Human life is secondary, at best. Human quality of life is completely irrelevant.

See environmental policies directed to "endangered species" (irrigation/water restrictions, shuttering hydroelectric dams); "clean energy" (attacking coal - abundant, cheap and a shitton cleaner than it used to be; no nukes); "climate change;" etc.
Posted by ChineseBandit58
Pearland, TX
Member since Aug 2005
47963 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:22 pm to
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Warren Buffets rail empire is what we're trying to protect.


gotcha
Posted by ChineseBandit58
Pearland, TX
Member since Aug 2005
47963 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:31 pm to
quote:

1) When you take out non-rail related incidents the deaths drop to 13.
2) The death rate includes trespasser deaths. If this includes suicides, then obviously the rate wouldn't increase due to increased rail traffic.

So I guess we can dispense with the "if it just saves ONE life, it is worth it" meme the DEMs trot out every time they have some ridiculous libtard idea.

great -- I'd trade the pipeline for that albatross.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
100348 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:32 pm to
How does the pipeline endanger human life more than railroad transport?

Rail has danger of wrecks, locomotives burn fuel to move it which contribute to greenhouse gases, etc. it's inefficient

Oil isn't going anywhere soon as long as it's the cheapest source of fuel. The pipeline is the safer and greener choice over rail transport
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
116694 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:38 pm to
Here is the latest. Vote will come up soon in the Senate with possible approval. Obama may pocket veto as a bargaining chip.

LINK

This post was edited on 11/18/14 at 2:40 pm
Posted by UPT
NOLA
Member since May 2009
5876 posts
Posted on 11/18/14 at 2:50 pm to
Trains don't kill people. They're inanimate objects, right? Why are we demonizing trains?
This post was edited on 11/18/14 at 2:52 pm
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