People from the towns of Revere, Chelsea and East Boston, along with activists, showed up at a hearing recently to protest the transportation of dangerous and highly combustible ethanol through significantly populated areas.
The state Department of Environmental Protection will soon conduct a hearing on the matter.
Global Oil is attempting to get approval for transporting a lot of ethanol to its fuel terminal on the line between East Boston and Revere.
Transportation of the dangerous liquid would be conducted on the commuter rail tracks which would travel through these suburbs into Boston. From there it would push through Chelsea and into the company's storage facility located on the Revere/Eastie line.
While ethanol transportation is done on a daily basis around the country, the vast majority of transporting the volatile fuel is done through rural areas.
Global oil would transport ethanol through about 25 cities. It's easy to see that sooner or later there is bound to be the high possibility of loss of life through an inevitable accident.
This is another reason the misguided obsession by the government to force ethanol fuel on the nation needs to be abandoned.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
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