Re: “Reject plan for coal export terminals” (Your Voice, 6-12).

The author’s naivete is startling. Let’s be realistic about neighbors, trains and coal.

• Coal is a legal product.

• Railways have an obligation under U.S. law to deliver freight.

• Wyoming and Montana mines have high-quality low sulfur coal to sell.

• China has a need for coal. It will buy it, either from U.S. and Canadian low-sulfur, high Btu quality coals or continue to burn the high-sulfur, low Btu quality coals it uses now, with its attendant environmental effects.

• Coal ports in Canada are planning to …

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Re: “Build pipeline and create jobs” (TNT, 1-4).

The reprinted Milwaukee Journal editorial neglected to mention that Paul Elliott, TransCanada’s chief lobbyist in D.C., was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s former campaign national deputy director.

And since when can a foreign country send threatening letters about eminent domain to American ranchers to scare them to sell their right-of-way easement rights?

Was it mentioned that the KXL oil will be sold on global markets? Did it relate that the Ogallala aquifier is the largest underground water reservoir on earth, supplying drinking water and irrigation to eight states?

Are we prepared …

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On a cursory perusal, the Viewpoint (TNT, 10-5) by Canadian Consul General Denis Stevens seems to make a passable case for the Keystone XL pipeline. It’s what he doesn’t say that should concern us.

This proposed transnational pipeline, from Canada to Texas, will carry tar sands crude oil, a particularly corrosive crude. The company also proposes to use higher pressures in the pipeline than are presently allowed in the United States, creating a dangerous combination of highly pressurized toxic fluids being pumped all the way across the U.S.

Then there is the fact that there is nothing in this …

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