Actually, that's incorrect. Oil shipments by rail are 4 1/2 times more likely to have a spill or incident than those pumped through a pipeline, according to data pulled from Canada’s Transportation Safety Board and Transport Canada between 2003 and 2013. Google it. Also, KM protests originally started because KM wanted to cut 13 trees for survey work. Protesters were primarily Burnaby residents who didn't want the pipeline going through their yard. NIMBY's. Since then, it's grown to attract the usual suspects of BC's environmental movement.