Just haul it by truck.
Posted on 09/15/2014 8:45:16 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The environmental group Earthjustice, funded by George Soros and joined by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics, is suing the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in order to prevent crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken formation to be moved to California.
The suit is reportedly in reaction the Kern County Board of Supervisors’ approval last Tuesday of Alon USA Energy's plan to expand the rail terminal at its Bakersfield, CA refinery. The expansion of the terminal would create the state’s largest crude-by-rail facility and allow the terminal to import five times as much crude oil by train as it already does, Earthjustice is also claiming that the state’s railroad bridges, which help transport the crude oil and are owned by private companies, are unsafe. Earthjustice asserts that railroad cars called DOT-111s, which carry oil, are antiquated, and has asked the DOT to issue an emergency order to stop the DOT-111s from carrying the oil.
Although the DOT has plans to replace the DOT-111’s, a lawyer for Earthjustice, Patti Goldman, told public radio station KQED, “They would still allow these railcars to be shipping crude oil and hazardous materials for about four more years. And that’s just too long to expose the public to these types of risks.”
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California needs to learn to live without access to petrochemicals of all kinds.
This pits Soros against Buffet. Grab the popcorn.
Build the XL and a ton more pipelines.
Soros using environmentalists as pawns to enrich himself and his oil business against competitors
This caught my attention: “....Although the DOT has plans to replace the DOT-111’s,...”
So the DOT owns these railcars, and is going to replace them eh. NOT. These cars are owned by private enterprise, and the government is going to coerce private enterprise to replace them with something certainly more costly, and perhaps less efficient if it is to Liberal standards.
More than likely the cars are owned by Warren Buffet, but then still it’s private enterprise isn’t it.
Just haul it by truck.
Why yes, pipelines are far safer, but that’s really not part of the discussion. Let’s continue to destroy the economy and America in the process.
I sure wish the government would hire some lawyers that could win some of these lawsuits for Americans. Unfortunately, all we’ve got fighting for us are second string JV lawyers.
So you say you would welcome murderous Islamists to resolve the environmentalist problem in this Nation?
I’ll be nice, and not say what I think of your idea.
These marxists deserve nothing less. They are functionally making us slaves to the government and I have no good will towards them or anyone that are their advocates or are their apologists.
Grow a pair, you Pansie!
I was nice. You are an idiot.
You made your position regarding my post perfectly clear. I said nothing about Islamic nutbars doing the dirty work, and I would be happy to do it myself!
I will NEVER bow down to those who are attempting to make me a slave in any form. I WILL fight to my death to forestall such a fate. I do NOT care if you accept my “extremist” view or not, but I WILL defend my belief from those who I consider weak-kneed or cowards.
Which category do you fall under?
Idiot indeed. Eat Shiite!
The environmentalists’ mommies and daddies in natural gas, real estate and tourism interests wouldn’t like you for that comment.
;-)
It is not uncommmon for the EPA to issue grants to environmental non-profits for the express purpose of suing the EPA .
Yes, you read that right.
It is a means by which the EPA and the environmental movement can get thru the court what the EPA is powerless to render itself.
And it is all done at the taxpayers' expense.
Accordingly, it would be instructive to see the grant history for Earthjustice.
Good!
:)
All of the posts I’ve seen on this forum advocating the use of the Guillotine are in essence no different from what I am advocating, so I see no reason to belittle my outraged response, but it won’t surprise me in the least to see me banned from this forum in short order for my outburst.
Oh well!
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