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Cuomo: Keystone XL pipeline matters here, too

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Published Thursday, September 22, 2011

I was one among thousands who participated in sit-ins at the White House this month to demand that President Obama refuse a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline that corporate giant TransCanada hopes to build from the tar sands of Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The proposed 2,000-mile pipeline would carry hot, sandy crude oil through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, to Texas refineries, where the refined oil would then be available to the highest international bidder.

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