Its all the newly found pipeline haters in this thread who have been benefiting from pipeline delivery since the day they were born. Surely they had heard of pipelines before this?
Probably it was more about the fact that the people who were most affected by spills . .. DIDN'T WANT IT THERE The idea that companies should be able to steam roll over individuals to make dollars and when **** goes sideways they hide behind backruptcy and those communities end up paying in effort time and money . . .and in some cases health Rocket River
What makes you think the general public was or is educated about the benefits and drawbacks of pipelines as a means of transporting oil? That seems like something I would suggest less than 1% of the American public would have ever given thought to prior to Keystone. Activists on all sides - environmentalists (mostly liberal)and farmers and ranchers (mostly conservative) made the thing an issue, and as a result, people have a lot more information (and misinformation) and it put oil pipelines in the national conciousness. This is similar to countless other issues that become hot button issues over time. Again, not sure the relevance of that happening here.
If demand is already being met, or alternative mechanisms can be explored and funded with a reallocation of capital, that's all the reason needed to object to additional projects. Not necessarily to violently protest them after the hearings and rate cases with an air of moral certitude, but public stuff gets shelved or fast-tracked due to external optics or internal relationships all the time.
