AS a Canadian oil worker, I continuously  read articles like this for insite to facts and logic relating to the fossil fuel industry and global climate impact. This as all opinion pieces seems to never reach the bar of anything more then unsubstantiated thought. There are no numbers. Just educated or uneducated guesses. Surely the author and anyone purporting to be on either side can direct readers to substantiated facts, rather then writing what amounts to be biased paragraphs. The disingenuous rhetoric of the environmentalists leave a gaping hole where full study of the human condition and  our relation to our planet would be informative. The population of our globe is the direct and indirect success of oil and fossil fuels. It has directly impacted human survival. Where is the in depth studies that take all of this into account? Pipelines are substantially safer then rail. More facts please.