So you keep hearing about ‘fracking’ and ‘the Keystone XL pipeline’ and stuff, but what's all the kerfuffle really about? Well, herewith a simple explanation to a complex problem so you can sound super smart at the pub!
On July 6 2013, the small town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec suffered an unspeakable tragedy when a goods train carrying crude oil derailed creating a fire that killed dozens of residents, spilled 100,000 liters of oil into the Chaudière River, decimated the downtown area and left the city with a $4 million cleanup bill. Does this tragedy lend weight to proponents of the TransCanada Keystone XL and the Enbridge Line 9B pipelines?