Transporting oil and gas by pipeline in Canada is 4.5 times safer than transport by rail
In both Canada and the United States, rising oil and natural gas production necessitates the expansion of our transportation capacity
By Fraser Institute —— Bio and Archives--August 13, 2015
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CALGARY—Transporting oil and gas by rail in Canada is a lot more risky than moving it by pipeline, concludes a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
Utilizing newly compiled data from Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) and Transport Canada, the study, Safety in the Transportation of Oil and Gas, finds that the rate of occurrences (incidents or accidents) per million barrels of oil transported is more than 4.5 times higher for rail than it is for pipelines for the period 2003-2013.
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