Well TDW, I'm no greenie environmentalist, I drive trucks and cars and have toys that run on fossil fuels but Energy East is a no-go for me. Much of the pipe that they plan to use is an old natural gas pipeline that is still in use. It was never designed to carry oil. It  will run right along the drinking water sources for millions of people. If it were to rupture and leak for just one hour before being shut off it would dump 1.6 million gallons of toxic muck into the environment. Imagine that going into the Ottawa or St. Lawrence River or one of the many lakes that the pipeline would run close to. If  TransCanada were intending to install an all new state of the art pipeline system for this project then perhaps it could be approved eventually but as it stands now there will be vocal opposition to it. You can add my voice to those who want no part of it.