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Tar Sands Pipelines: presenting unaddressed hazards to public safety

By: Natural Resources Defense Council | Anthony Swift, Elizabeth Shope

Published: December 2010

Tar sands crude oil pipeline comanies may be putting the American public's safety at risk by using conventional pipeline technology to transport a highly corrosive, acidic and potentially unstable blend of thick raw bitumen and volatile natural gas liquid condensate called DilBit.

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