If Trans Canada did not use or have to use eminent domain to make citizens relinquish their land and were willing to pay land owners whatever it took to buy them out for the pipeline, that would be one step in the right direction of making this happen imho....and maybe they should just run this wider pipe along side Keystone 1,2,3 instead of this new xl route near the aqua-fir?
The other scary part about this is tar sand oil... it is heavier than water, so with any spill, it is not an easy clean up, with the oil floating on top of water....this stuff sinks so the potential of a great disaster to our soil and water resources is huge...
On the other hand...
Some day in the future, our Nation could need this dirty tar sand oil from Canada...so we probably should not burn our bridges before we cross them...
It is not oil. It is diluted bitumen. Oil transported in the US is subject to a fee for each barrel that goes to a fund used for spill cleanup. The bitumen does not required that fee.
That can be readily fixed.
Lots of things could be easily fixed. The house could have easily brought the bipartisan border security bill to a vote, but there is little chance of the right wing doing either. Also, my point was that diluted bitumen is not oil. It doesn't have the same environmental damage potential as oil.