With the Southwest home to several pipelines environmental concerns have been raised since the oil spill began, at Maidstone, North of Prince Albert. Peter Prebble, Director of Environmental Policy with the Saskatchewan Environmental Society answers the question of what are his feelings of pipe lines in general. ``We have concerns of both transportable by rail and by pipe line. Transport by pipeline is certainly safer by the point of view of avoiding human accident or death``. Prebble adds that there has been a very sharp rise in the oil by Rail Traffic accidents in populated areas in the last 6-7 years in Canada and the United States. He feels that populated areas in Saskatchewan can be at risk if an explosion or a derailment of a train carrying crude oil happens.

His group also feels that moving oil by pipe line has its own set of risks as well. He says ``I think it will, I hope this will force a re-examination of pipeline practices in Canada particularly with respect to construction, inspection and frequency and all of those kind of issues``.

The Environmental Society believes that all pipe lines that travel under water ways should be double piped to a distance of 1 km on either side of the banks. This would keep water ways safer in the events of a leak. No details have been released by Husky Oil on the structural make up of the pipe at this time.

What is clear from all sides of this situation is that due diligence, inspections and adherence to regulations will keep environmental impacts of oil pipe lines from occurring in the Southwest.