[Vendome]

So Mr. Bill McKibben .

Will you cancel the gas line to your home or the various restaurants in the area?

[Harpotoo]

Now think of all the TRUCKS that have to drive again from Canada and back instead of just flowing down a pipe like a good crap does:-) Imagine having to fill up a barrel and then calling the sanitation Dept to pick it up and return it:-)

[JimRed]

So now that oil will have to be transported by rail or truck, causing more emissions and wear and tear on infrastructure. Good news for the rail and trucking oligarchs!

[HotHunt]

People as stupid as the author reveals himself to be, is the reason he has to write for The New Yorker.

[Saltmeat]

Without the pipeline the crude oil will be transported from Canada to the U. S. by rail which affords more risk to the environment than the Keystone XL Pipeline ever will. This guy McKibben is definitely stuck on stupid. More of the Canadian crude will also flow by pipeline to Canada’s west coast and be loaded on huge oil tankers for the journey to China where it will be processed out of the reach of any U. S. environmental refining and consumption regulations. We have reduced our carbon emissions significantly while both China and Russia have increased theirs. Much of our reductions have been offset by their increases. McKibben can’t figure this out. It must be above his pay grade.

[sauropod]

McKibben is a nutbar. Has been for a long time.

I wish he’d retire.

[WashingtonSource]

Apparently the pipeline was cancelled to pay off Warren Buffett, who owns the railroads that will be used to transport the oil south now that there will be no pipeline. Or so it is being claimed.

[Rusty0604]

Why Did Media Ignore a UN Emissions Report Saying United States Does Not Need To Go Back into Paris Climate Accord?

https://djhjmedia.com/rich/why-did-media-ignore-a-un-emissions-report-saying-united-states-does-not-need-to-go-back-into-paris-climate-accord/

[READINABLUESTATE]

Lac-Megantic: The runaway train that destroyed a town

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42548824

[jmacusa]

Oh yes. I always turn to Upper East Side NYC elitist liberal snobs for the real scoop on things.

[The Great RJ]

Cancelling the pipeline doesn’t stop the Canadian oil from being used. For the time being that same oil will be transported by trucks and rail with even poorer safety records than a pipeline. If Joe goes all out to ban oil that crude will be sold to China whose environmental record is abysma.