Off The Rails

Wouldn’t it be horrible if Canadian railway lines were used as back-door routes to move dangerous compressed natural gas east and west from North Dakota on its way to offshore markets?  The U.S. is not without its own railways.

It’s easy to predict the coming conflagration that will cost thousands of lives in the heart of a Canadian city when a tanker train blows sky high in the blink of an eye.  It’s one thing to transport dangerous goods to destinations where they are needed in Canada.  It is quite another to risk Canadian lives to satisfy an insatiable market for exports.

The verdict is in.  Canadians refuse to build safe pipelines and Canadian railway shippers are not up to the task of transporting dangerous cargos.

I wish we could agree.  No more rail movement of dangerous goods destined for offshore markets.