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Originally Posted by Soundy
Got a kick out of a news bit yesterday saying a lot of the protesters had left because of the cold and rain and mud... and left a huge lawn area turned into a massive mud bog. I guess it's okay to trample all over nature if your heart's in the right place?  |
Most of those people have little to no knowledge of what they are even defending against. They are just band wagoners on this hip environmental movement to ban pipelines. They do a thousand things every day which if they collectively stopped would set back environmental degradation back 10 years. Instead they march against statistically some of the most environmentally friendly companies on this planet (seriously go look it up, many companies which are in oil&gas or environmentally sensitive fields of work, are usually industry leaders in other areas, things like paperless efforts, and helping to control power usage by employees etc). Sure many do dirty work, but they do what they can to limit their damage, and they tend to do it a lot better than other companies.
While were at it go look at a few maps, and you will realize how many pipelines are currently operating throughout the entire world. This isn't some new phenomenon which is decimating the worlds environment. This is established fucking technology which is universally understood as one of the quickest, and easily containable ways of transferring product from one place to another, everything from bitumen, to water, to sewage, even hydrogen.
As stewie said above, 300 000 tanker trucks a day (JUST FROM KM). Sure you don't want a pipeline? Fine we will send it all by truck, and that will be way more environmentally friendly than a pipeline. Meanwhile feel free to stop complaining about the cost of gas when you are filling up your SUV's, because our cost to market just doubled without that pipeline...
Just for shits and giggles this is the global map for energy transmissions pipelines (which account for only a certain percentage of total pipelines)
Here is NA:
