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      311 months ago

      Yup. NAFTA negotiations are coming up shortly and I bet some of our unused pipelines will be looked at to transport fresh water instead of oil.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        Which might be a good idea. We’ve got the pipes sitting there already, connecting the whole continent. Might as well use them.

        Before someone says it, yes, you can clean out oil pipelines enough to be used for fresh drinking water. It has been done before.

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          11 months ago

          I dunno that it’s a good idea. What would the US be willing to pay for that water? I mean if it’s like the pittance water bottlers have been paying, fuck that.

          Would we have restrictions on usage, and limits on how much they can take per year? Like there’s a large chunk of desert that’s growing crops and takes a LOT of water.

          Lots of questions to be answered and logistics to look at first.

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          -111 months ago

          Why not? It’s a free trade agreement and Canada has known for a long time that America would be looking at our freshwater sources because of their mismanagement.

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            I don’t think you can just look at some old oil pipeline and just decide to run freshwater through it. Pretty sure water isn’t the same as oil also I don’t think most people want to drink oily water.

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                111 months ago

                Fine whatever you convinced me. The TMX pipeline is going to take water

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                  11 months ago

                  I didn’t say it would for sure. I said it would be discussed.

                  C’mon. This is a discussion, right?

                  • @afraid_of_zombies
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                    111 months ago

                    Sorry it is just, I can’t even with this. Canada is not going to get invaded. There are so many bigger problems to worry about.

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      It can’t possibly be as expensive to invade a country vs running a desalinization system