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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can understand the concern about danger to the aquifer if oil is spilled in porus ground such as sand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know if there is any way of protecting against that problem if a pipeline is run through the sand hills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know if the sand there runs all the way down to the aquifer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it would seem to be impossible to guarantee that no leaks or spills will ocurr anywhere on a pipline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the sand hills were the only issue, I would think it prudent to slove the problem by re-routing around the sand hills.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, when I listen to the advocacy opposing this pipeline, I hear far more objection than just the threat to the aquifer under the sand hills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is a quote from the link I posted above celebrating a victory over killing the pipline:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">“The president explicitly noted climate change, along the pipeline route, as one of the factors that a new review would need to assess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no way, with an honest review, that a pipline that helps speed the tapping of the world’s second-largest pool of carbon can pass environmental muster.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Therefore, I do not see how moving the oil by train instead of by pipeline will absolve the crime of "tapping the world’s second-largest pool of carbon." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure that proposals to move the oil by train will face the same oppostion.</span></span></span></p>
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