Warren Buffett is smiling today.
Maybe, but those 700 cars a day could have been hauling grain.
Instead, it's likely they'll be hauling oil.
If they just run more trains, it's likely the tracks will 'feel' it.
More traffic, greater likelihood of a problem--and the usual suspects will be pointing out the Lac Megantic mess and pitching fits over rail.
The bottom line is that those Communists in ecowhacko world just want to stop Western Industry. How about someone sees how much money they get from China and Soros. Anything to foul up the economy, and remember the stories of the so-called "Water Protector" camp published on the Coasts didn't have crap to do with reality seen here. So it is linkely his head has been filled with mush and BS from the git-go.
This started as a standard holdup (one word). When the tribe decided suddenly they wanted three times as much as had been agreed upon, the folks routing the pipeline said they could go around tribal land for less, and walked away from the deal. They did route the pipeline around the Reservation, like they said they would. I'd bet the fit pitched by members of the tribe (and a swarm of imported protestors) was just to get money to quit pitching a fit.
The extortion attempt continues.