242 A Ecology Dr. Otienoburu Keystone XL Pipeline The Keystone XL pipeline project is a project that aims to reduce the American dependence on oil from Venezuela and the Middle East by forty percent. The construction of this pipeline is vital to the security and economic growth of the United States. The pipeline project is aiming to be a 1‚179 mile‚ 36-inch-diameter crude oil pipeline. This project is a combined effort of the Canadian and American governments. The pipeline is proposed to run from Hardisty
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Keystone Pipeline The Keystone Pipeline‚ also known as Keystone XL‚ is a 1‚179-mile-long pipeline from oil fields in Western Canada to the Midwestern United States. Specifically‚ this pipeline will extend from Alberta‚ Canada to Steele City‚ Nebraska with plans to link to an existing pipeline that reaches to the Gulf Coast. Despite the advantages this pipeline will produce‚ it will also create various negative effects regarding wildlife and inhabitants of these areas‚ economic and political issues
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The Keystone Pipeline The Keystone Pipeline is a pipeline system that holds oil and it runs through the United States and Canada. More specifically‚ it starts in Alberta‚ Canada at the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and travels to oil refineries in Texas and Illinois as well as oil tank farms and an oil pipeline distribution center located in Cushing‚ Oklahoma. The Keystone Pipeline consists of three phases as well as one more operation that was awaiting approval but has been rejected. The first
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20 June 2014 Say No to Keystone XL Pipeline America is the largest consumer of oil than any other country and a lot of our oil comes from foreign countries. An oil pipeline project has been proposed from TransCanada called “Keystone XL Pipeline”. It is a pipeline system that will transport the world’s dirtiest fuel tar sands oil to the U.S Gulf Coast and Midwest refineries. This pipeline would cross six states in the U.S which are Montana‚ South Dakota‚ Nebraska‚ Kansas‚ Oklahoma‚ and Texas. This
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Already‚ there is a Keystone Pipeline in existence‚ which runs from fields of oil sand starting in Canada to the U.S. The Keystone XL Pipeline 2‚000 long would be an expansion of this‚ causing somewhat of an economic issue regarding employment and that would only be the beginning of many issues. TransCanada is the company that has been striving for this project to begin; A connection to Cushing‚ Oklahoma where there is currently an oil jam to the Gulf Coast of Texas‚ where the destination of oil
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Billy Fitzgerald 3-13-12 Keystone Pipeline The Keystone Pipeline is a system that transports oil from Canada into the U.S. The owner of this Pipeline is TransCanada‚ who proposed the idea back in October of 2005. However‚ the construction on the Pipeline didn’t go under way until 2008. It took TransCanada over two years to acquire all the necessary state and federal permits for the pipeline. The pipeline runs for over 2100 miles‚ through a number of states and provinces throughout the
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The Keystone Pipeline Debate Before one can form an opinion on whether the Keystone Pipeline should or should not be built‚ they should first know what it is‚ and hear both sides of the argument. The Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States‚ commissioned since 2010. It runs from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta to refineries in Illinois and Texas‚ and also to oil tank farms and oil pipeline distribution center in Cushing‚ Oklahoma. Three
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is not concern about them. In 2015‚ the United States’ president Barack Obama took the first step to make aware the world about the detrimental effects of the petroleum to the environment because he denied the construction of an oil pipeline‚ called Keystone Pipeline XL‚ that would connect Texas with Canada’s oil mine in Alberta. Obama stated that the elaboration
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Nebraska has more groundwater than any other state. The Ogallala Aquifer underlies about 174‚000 miles of the High Plains. In some places it can get up to 1‚000 feet deep. It spans across eight states‚ including South Dakota‚ Nebraska‚ New Mexico‚ Wyoming‚ Colorado‚ Oklahoma and Texas. It is being pumped by close to 200‚000 irrigation wells. This water is so important to American Agriculture. It helps hydrate America‚ so think what would happen if it were to run out? Even though ground water is a
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Oil Industry: Keystone Pipeline The Keystone Pipeline has been in news for several months and has been the subject of scrutiny‚ political bantering and environmentalist activism. Keystone Pipeline is a transcontinental synthetic oil project that runs from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Construction of such a pipeline bears many risk associated with ecosystem disruption and environmental hazards. President Obama blocked the pipeline’s extension noting several studies that the pipeline would have adverse
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