The Blade, Toledo, OH, 3/29:
Recent derailments have raised questions of safety, method of transporting oil Pipelines and tank cars both pose benefits and risks
President Obama’s veto of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline has major ramifications for North America’s energy future.
But it also has intensified the debate about whether it is safer to transport crude oil via pipelines or railroad tank cars.
Though statistics show pipelines are safer, more efficient at moving product, and, thus, release fewer climate-altering greenhouse gases than an equivalent amount of crude shipped along a more energy-intensive rail system, pros and cons of each mode of transportation are being amplified by lobbyists — especially in the wake of several recent, catastrophic oil-train derailments.
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