More oil by rail if Keystone XL is not built?

[CHamilton]

TransCanada eyes shipping oil by rail amid Keystone XL delays-CEO

May 21 (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp is in talks with customers about shipping Canadian crude to the United States by rail as an alternative to its Keystone XL pipeline project that has been mired in political delays, Chief Executive Russ Girling said on Wednesday.
"We are absolutely considering a rail option," Girling told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference in New York. "Our customers have needed to wait for several years, so we're in discussions now with them over the rail option."

The comments are the first to confirm growing speculation that TransCanada might use more costly and controversial railway shipments as a stopgap alternative to the Keystone XL pipeline, whose approval has been delayed by the U.S. government.

Girling said the firm was exploring shipping crude by rail from Hardisty in Canada, the main storage and pipeline hub, to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would flow into an existing pipeline to the Gulf refining hub.

 

[The Davy Crockett]

Thanks for posting this Charlie.

IMHO:

This is hardly surprising news. The 'modern' world has a hydrocarbon addiction which will be fed one way or another. We could be up to our arses in flooded coastal areas, the ice caps completely melted, the world's climate swaying wildly in extremes, and yet we will still be burning whatever hydrocarbons we can find because 'it is good for the world's economy,' and there will still be people denying even the possibilty that we could have impacted the world's ecology and climate with our burning of so many hydrocarbons. These folks will have made Pat Sajak their own folk hero.

From this article at CBS News:

"Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak is trying to extinguish the firestorm he sparked on Twitter earlier this week with a tweet about climate change.

It all began with a tweet taking aim at "global warming alarmists" -- calling them "unpatriotic racists."

I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends. Good night.

— Pat Sajak (@patsajak) May 20, 2014