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Pipelines as nation-builders? Historians dubious of railway comparisons
2013-08-18 14:55:25| Energy - Topix.net
To hear some proponents of the Energy East project tell it, when the taps open on the $12-billion oil pipeline the moment will be as significant as when the last spike was driven into the Canadian Pacific Railway almost 128 years ago.
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