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September 6, 2012

TransCanada Offers to Reroute Keystone XL; Activists Target Pipeline Construction in Texas 
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The pipeline giant Trans Canada has offered to alter its Keystone XL oil
pipeline to avoid environmentally sensitive areas on the route between
the Alberta tar sands and Texas. President Obama had rejected initial
plans for the Keystone XL pipeline earlier this year, but later pledged
to fast-track approval of the southern portion stretching from Oklahoma
to the Gulf Coast. Trans Canada says its new proposed route takes into
account public concerns and feedback from environmental officials in
Nebraska. Opponents say the Keystone XL pipeline will poison local
communities and further harm the environment through the increased
greenhouse gases of extracting tar sands oil. On Wednesday, activists
with the Tar Sands Blockade in Texas held their third action against the
pipeline's construction by locking themselves to Trans Canada equipment
near Sulphur Springs.

 

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