Keystone pipeline leak

[jazz]

What industries are left behind, who don't have the option of pulling up stakes and moving south? If you guessed farmers, you would be right.

Land cant move but product can and it can go south and someday it might have to. Grain might be like oil one day. One giant sucking customer to the south then they export it efficiently. That may even be a better deal than what Canada has in store.

$25B in subways and transit in Montreal and Toronto and nothing for rail and highway links.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Land cant move but product can and it can go south and someday it might have to. Grain might be like oil one day. One giant sucking customer to the south then they export it efficiently. That may even be a better deal than what Canada has in store.

$25B in subways and transit in Montreal and Toronto and nothing for rail and highway links.

Yes, the product does, and will continue to flow south, but the tax revenues will increasingly flow east to pay for the socialist policies, and in the absence of a robust energy industry, or forestry or mining, the burden will fall squarely on the immobile farmers left behind.

[grassfarmer]

I know nothing of oil spills but what I do know is my Dad dumped used engine oil in the same spot behind our shop for about 40 years. That spot was covered with brush and brome grass and the vegetation was greener and lusher in that spot than most of the surrounding area. After I stopped doing that for the last 25 or so years you can’t tell that spot from any other spot. As far as chems go I rinse my sprayer in a spot behind the yard that is kind of low and mossy and a bit of a swamp and growing brome grass that I keep mowed. That spot looks as healthy and lush as any area in the yard.

Sounds unlikely. We had a neighbours home made, waste oil filled roller sitting in our bale yard in 2002 when a real hot day burst a weld on the end allowing the oil to drain out. The soil there was essentially straight sand so the oil disappeared but as of 2015 not a blade of grass grew in or near that spot.