Simple fact; pipelines leak, they blow up, and they carry products that are dangerous as end products to be exported, and the waste stays here! It’s complicated, just like the land rights involved. Which, it was TEXANS seeing a corporation using eminent domain to seize the land for the Keystone XL that was also the flap, not the pipeline.
BTW: the railroads were GIVEN 131,350,534 acres, 9,5% of Federal Lands to build and run railroads IN PERPETUITY! Those railroads are now “energy” companies drilling for oil on the mineral estate they did NOT sell off when they sold the surface acres. That’s why a farmer or rancher can see drill rigs show up on “his” land, with NO RECOURSE but to let the “railroad” drill and extract the oil and or gas under “his” land!
Simple fact; pipelines leak, they blow up, and they carry products that are dangerous as end products to be exported, and the waste stays here! It’s complicated, just like the land rights involved. Which, it was TEXANS seeing a corporation using eminent domain to seize the land for the Keystone XL that was also the flap, not the pipeline.
BTW: the railroads were GIVEN 131,350,534 acres, 9,5% of Federal Lands to build and run railroads IN PERPETUITY! Those railroads are now “energy” companies drilling for oil on the mineral estate they did NOT sell off when they sold the surface acres. That’s why a farmer or rancher can see drill rigs show up on “his” land, with NO RECOURSE but to let the “railroad” drill and extract the oil and or gas under “his” land!