There is finite coast line and nobody ever wants anything in their back yard. So what do we do? Stop civilization? Incidents are always going to happen, so you do the very best you can to mitigate and prevent. Yeah - I'm for the Excel pipeline. The Alaskan pipeline has done just fine. Why prevent growth, especially when this country needs it so desperately? Ever expanding human civilization HAS to go through somebody's back yard. It's just the way it is...