EcoWatch: Over the course of a two-week sit-in from Aug. 20 to Sept. 1, 2011, more than 1,200 people were arrested in front of the White House protesting the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,700-mile-long pipeline that would carry oil from the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Immediately after the U.S. election, Canadian Minister Joe Oliver said that he fully expected the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to be approved by the reelected Obama administration. This is wishful thinking on the part...
URL: http://ecowatch.org/2012/future-keystone-xl-pipeline/
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