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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am not saying that transporting the oil, or the thinner, or a mixture of the two is something cannot be done in conjunction with rail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only mention the objections that are seen from the environmentalist perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That cannot be dismissed because it was environmentalists that were able to kill the pipeline. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">And if you Google around, you can find that environmentalists are not amused by the idea of Canadian oil making an end run around the pipeline option by resorting to rail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They see spill hazards in any mode of transport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their point has always been the oil, not the pipeline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they note that rail transport uses more energy and causes more global warming than pipeline transport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the opposition that killed the pipeline thinks the pipeline was the greener, more preferable option compared to rail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">The one advantage I see for rail is the fact that it already exists, and its ability to ramp up gradually, so it attracts less attention than an all-or-nothing new pipeline starting from scratch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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