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Oil by Rail Vs. Pipelines safety records
In a misguided attempt to push for approval of the Keystone Pipeline, Vancouver's Fraser Institute recently published a study entitled "Intermodal Safety in the Transport of Oil." The "study" is, in fact, a recycled version of an already discredited report originally released in the United States by the Manhattan Institute as part of its attempt to promote pipelines as the only safe mode of transport.