The railroad industry is eager to be the go-to oil shipper, but some worry it’s moving too fast.

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

Many hoping to stop environmental degradation of Canada’s Tar Sands and the Dakotas “Kuwait on the Prairie” have opposed the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.  It’s been decades since crude oil has been shipped by rail in the United States but fracking technologies have opened up areas without oil pipelines to become major producers.  As demonstrated in this NPR podcast, the railroad industry has seized on this vacuum and since 2009 has been supplying the oil industry the means to get their product to the market.   

Tags:  transportation, industry, economic, energy, resources, environment, environment modify, ecology.

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