This is what happens when your idea of best sustainable practices involves blocking a secure pipeline and instead relying on Warren Buffett to transport your oil.
(frontpagemag.com)A mile-long train hauling oil from Canada derailed, spilling 30,000 gallons of crude in western Minnesota on Wednesday, as debate rages over the environmental risks of transporting tar sands across the border. … There has been a rapid increase in rail transport of crude in the last three years as booming North American oil production has outgrown existing pipeline capacity. “Railroads travel through population centers. The safest form of transport for this type of product is a pipeline.” But Warren Buffett has a piece of the rail business, but doesn’t have a piece of the pipeline. And he has a very big piece of Obama Inc.
