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March 15, 2012

Shining a Light on Keystone's Hidden Costs

Curtis Moore, CounterPunch


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On January 18, 2012, President Barack Obama rejected the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. It would ship up to 590,000 barrels per day of “bitumin,” a kind of crude oil, ripped from the tar sands of Canada 1,700 miles south to refineries lining the Gulf of Mexico. . .

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