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March 15, 2012

Keystone a Danger to the Heartland

Robert Kistner, Huffington Post


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For all the pompous prognostications by Keystone XL tar sands pipeline boosters in Congress about jobs and economic impacts, you don’t have to look much further than the devastated communities of the Kalamazoo River to get to the truth about the dangers this project will pose to America’s heartland.

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