Energy Security: The Keystone Pipeline
You see them every day as you’re driving down the interstate. Big trucks carrying cylinder-type trailers with hazmat placards strategically placed around them. There are rail systems that may pass through your neighborhoods and or near your child’s school with loads larger than what 18-wheeler can carry. We know these rail systems, as trains. What you may not know is, these trains are carrying tankers filled with natural gas, with loads stretching miles long. Accidents involving trailer trailers and or rail systems carrying hazardous loads don’t occur every day but when they do, the results are catastrophic. The Keystone XL pipeline is a safer and …show more content…
Drilling, extraction sites and pipeline construction in central Oklahoma have created a spike in incomes that are noticeably visible in IRS records. The oil industry and new shale techniques are responsible for these hikes in salary (Generous). Along with the hundreds to thousands of construction jobs associated with the Keystone XL pipeline, affected areas are expected to see an increase in economic activity with the increase in residency. The Keystone XL pipeline will be more of an asset to Americans and far outweighs any foreseen environmental problems. If America doesn’t act now in building the Keystone XL pipeline and continue to rely on aging, and inefficient truck and rail systems, we will become energy stuck in midstream. American’s must understand that “new gas and new techniques are limited by the ability to deliver energy” (Generous). The construction and development of the Keystone XL pipeline will be crucial in American’s energy security in years to
You see them every day as you’re driving down the interstate. Big trucks carrying cylinder-type trailers with hazmat placards strategically placed around them. There are rail systems that may pass through your neighborhoods and or near your child’s school with loads larger than what 18-wheeler can carry. We know these rail systems, as trains. What you may not know is, these trains are carrying tankers filled with natural gas, with loads stretching miles long. Accidents involving trailer trailers and or rail systems carrying hazardous loads don’t occur every day but when they do, the results are catastrophic. The Keystone XL pipeline is a safer and …show more content…
Drilling, extraction sites and pipeline construction in central Oklahoma have created a spike in incomes that are noticeably visible in IRS records. The oil industry and new shale techniques are responsible for these hikes in salary (Generous). Along with the hundreds to thousands of construction jobs associated with the Keystone XL pipeline, affected areas are expected to see an increase in economic activity with the increase in residency. The Keystone XL pipeline will be more of an asset to Americans and far outweighs any foreseen environmental problems. If America doesn’t act now in building the Keystone XL pipeline and continue to rely on aging, and inefficient truck and rail systems, we will become energy stuck in midstream. American’s must understand that “new gas and new techniques are limited by the ability to deliver energy” (Generous). The construction and development of the Keystone XL pipeline will be crucial in American’s energy security in years to