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US House Members Seek Tough Review of Pipeline
News Articles | Associated Press | June 23, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) About 50 U.S. House members are asking the Obama administration to conduct a more thorough review of the possible environmental impact of a proposed tar sands oil pipeline that would run from Canada to the state of Texas.
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the representatives argue that before a presidential permit is issued for the pipeline from Alberta, Canada, that the State Department should determine whether the project is in the national interest and come to that conclusion through the use of an environmental impact statement.
The TransCanada Corp. pipepline is projected to deliver up to 900,000 barrels a day of tar sands oil over 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) to refineries on the Texas coastline of the Gulf of Mexico.
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