Posted on 01/10/2015 8:26:20 PM PST by BenLurkin
Democratic members of the state’s congressional delegation face a difficult balancing act.
Their supporters who are advocates of renewable energy anticipate them to vote against the pipeline. President Obama has threatened to veto the present pipeline bill due to the fact it quick-circuits his administration’s assessment course of action.
But Minnesota politicians who oppose the pipeline flirt with a attainable lengthy-term raise in oil train traffic on tracks that quite a few constituents say are already overloaded with railcars carrying flammable fuel.
“It is a precarious position to be against oil train transport and to be against the Keystone pipeline,” Initial District Democratic Rep. Tim Walz acknowledged.
(Excerpt) Read more at finditwestvalley.com ...
It threatens his course of action of inaction. Darn those wascally Wepublicans!
Sounds like the same editor (with the same subminimal command of the English language) as was on the Boumeddienne "arrow gun" caption...
A train that costs more and will derail or a much lower costing pipeline that is safer. One of very very many pipelines here in the USA.
Pipelines
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