If safety was the primary concern of these regulators Keystone would have been finished a decade ago.
Duluth News Tribune (2/21/23) reports: "When it comes to moving fossil fuels as safely as possible from where they are produced to where they are needed, the data is clear that pipelines are the best choice, particularly over long distances...'According to the most recent numbers available, 99.99 percent of gas and crude oil is moved safely through interstate transmission pipelines,' says the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers. 'This achievement is the result of a culture that values safety above all, throughout the pipeline lifecycle,' which they say includes 'pipeline operators constantly monitoring pipeline performance using state-of-the-art technology.' But an administration that began with President Joe Biden killing a major pipeline project — the Keystone XL — and a plunge in energy leases has supporters of fossil-fuel production wary about regulatory changes. If you ask Dan Kish at the Institute for Energy Research, onerous government regulations are precisely the reason people are now pushing for new calculations on the 'safe distance' from pipelines. 'The goal is to make it so expensive or so impossible to use any of the U.S.'s world-class energy resources that Americans are forced to use renewable-energy technology, which, unfortunately, only works part-time and is largely dependent upon Chinese production,' Kish said.
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"It’s a lot easier to convince the Berkeley City Council to adopt a ban on natural gas than it is to deliver that fuel and do so reliably and affordably to thousands (or millions) of homes and businesses. Put another way, the NGO-corporate-industrial-climate complex has launched an asymmetric war against the hydrocarbon and nuclear-energy sectors. "
– Robert Bryce, Substack
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