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Keystone XL pipeline closer to reality after State Department review
2014-01-31 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Keystone XL, a mundane pipeline project that escalated into a bitter proxy war over climate change and North America's energy future, moved one important step closer to reality on Friday. The State Department, in its final environmental review of the project, concluded that the pipeline, which would carry crude from the Alberta tar sands in Canada to refineries on the Texas Gulf coast, would not on its own have a significant effect on carbon pollution. The report acknowledged that...
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