Pipelines are different than trains. - They can leak much more in an unit time than trains... hundreds of thousands of gallons, and regulatory enforcement on l

Pipelines are different than trains. - They can leak much more in an unit time than trains... hundreds of thousands of gallons, and regulatory enforcement on leaks in the US is very weak because of corporate capture. - They are built usually by legally-stealing land (easements, eminent domain) from people along the way. - If they leak on people's land, they don't have much recourse. - All the safety tech and building codes in the world don't matter if the operators don't really care about leaks because the risks of fines and lawsuits is so comparatively small. There are hundreds of oil leaks per year, and they can be absolutely huge, but because they're usually in the middle of "nowhere," they rarely make the mainstream news.