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Data Dump: Keystone XL epitaph-by-the-numbers

President Joe Biden expected to kill the controversial pipeline

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Jan 20, 2021
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Numerous media outlets are reporting that one of President Joe Biden’s first acts from the Oval Office will be to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline.  

First proposed in 2008, the 1,200-mile pipeline would carry heavy crude oil from Alberta oil sands to Steele City, Nebraska, en route to Gulf Coast refineries. Because the pipeline would cross a national bor…

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