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State Dept. Hid Contractors Ties to Keystone XL Pipeline Company
2013-03-21 15:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Late on a Friday afternoon in early March, the State Department released a 2,000-page draft report downplaying the environmental risks of the northern portion of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would ferry oil from Canada`s tar sands to refineries in Texas, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. But when it released the report, State hid an important fact from the public: Experts who helped draft the report had previously worked for TransCanada, the company...
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