Strib editorial: For safety's sake, approve Keystone

[question everything]

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/editorials/289643371.html

The long, bitter debate over building the Keystone XL pipeline has been dominated by competing claims about its ability to generate jobs and accelerate climate change.

But the 100-car trains carrying volatile crude oil that chug through Minnesota each day, including the metro area, are a reminder that public safety is also at stake as Congress and President Obama are expected to finally decide the controversial pipeline’s fate early this year.

While pipelines are not without risk, they are widely considered the least risky option among the methods current used — trains, trucks and tankers — to move large volumes of crude. Because building Keystone would funnel more crude from Western Canada and North Dakota into pipelines and help reduce the amount traveling in Minnesota and elsewhere by train and other modes, Keystone XL should be approved.

More at the link, above

[Fred Sanders]

1. Idiots. How much was the paper paid to argue it is better to die by water poisoning that in an inferno?

Desperado editorial.

And there are not "competing claims" about jobs, one claim is economically calculated by experts and the other is pure fantasy calculated by Fox.

[glinda]

4. Win win when they poison the water because then we will have to buy it.

They will own it as they want to.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Ha ha ...

those trains will keep running because they're not headed to Texas.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. You just knew it would come.

Glenn Taylor has finally struck the Strib Editorial page. But,then we should have expected it,since he is one of the Rethug leaders in Minnesota. Looks like the Strib is going the same way as his Timber Puppies,down the poop chute.

[glinda]

5. Yup.