Keystone

The State Department announced today another delay in the Keystone Pipeline. While these delays are going on the oil from tar sand fields of Western Canada is being shipped by rail to Mobile AL and then by truck to the Refinery in MS. This is not as cost efficient as a pipeline and it is less safe and more harmful to the environment. Are the environmentalist who oppose the pipeline aware of these shipments? The government announced new rules in February regarding the shipping of oil by rail and in particular shipping the heavy crude from Canada. Perhaps the environmental people have been working behind the scenes in efforts to curtail these shipments by influencing the EPA to issue these new regs.