I remember in the late 1960s environmentalists assured us that if TAPS was built Alaska would quickly become an oil soaked moonscape, all the caribou would be dead and that the pipeline would surely fail because of all the engineering problems. Forty years later NONE of these dire predictions have come true. The XL pipeline presents few of the engineering challenges of TAPS and will be like the scores of other pipelines beneath our feet for decades that have functioned without problems.
That's the pattern of all their crack-brained Chicken-Little scenarios, yet so many buy into them - especially the politicians.