For those of the "They don't protest all pipelines, just this one - because of the river."

That may be today's mantra, but I don't buy it. Look at nuclear disposal. In the 1980's the DOE proposed site after site, all shot down for one reason or another (Too close to river, too close to lake, this animal would be impacted, that animal would be impacted, migration routes, old growth forests, too close to a population center, fault lines, upwind of such-and-such, soil instatbility.) Finally there was Yucca Mountain; a spot in south central Nevada desert, 100 miles from Las Vegas, surrounded by an Air Force Range.

So did the environmental movement say, "Good on you, we approve." Nope. Still not good enough. So instead nuclear material continues to be stored near rivers and coastlines in Oregon and California, and near population centers along the Eastern Seaboard.