Honestly, the pipeline isn't really the problem. Pipelines are the least terrible way to transport oil, creating by far the least CO2, and even ruining the least amount of land and water with spills, simply because trucks and trains crash more.

The REAL problem is that the pipeline makes it profitable to exploit the oilsands, which is basically the preteen child labor of energy. It is horrible for the environment to extract, horrible for the planet to prepare for shipping, terrible to refine and after all that, it's still crude oil.

A proposed extension known as Keystone XL would have carried more tar sands oil—widely considered the world's dirtiest fuel—to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico. Opponents warned of the danger of leaks, with a 2021 report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office noting that there were 22 accidents along the conduit between 2010 and 2020. These include leaks of more than 100,000 gallons per spill in 2017, 2019, and 2022.

It's the little things in life that find a way of still letting me sip from the thimble of joy...like when someone calls it the Gulf of Mexico.

Hey Canada you should honestly just switch that fucker off

I mean, "safest" is a superlative, not a positive. It's perfectly possible that all other pipelines ruptured three times or more.

one of my favorite kaiju movies has a very explicit moral at the end, when the japanese guy dumps the blonde left leg of the love triangle (the only white woman and only non-japanese person in the entire film) at the end and says THINGS SHOULD STAY WHERE THEY ARE. it's horrible and i love it. but you know, maybe it had a point.

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