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• Unlocking the Keystone pipeline
  The 1,700-mile pipeline would help quench the nation's gasoline thirst by transporting 800,000 barrels of crude every day from Canada's oil sands to refineries along the Gulf Coast. Only the president's veto pen stands between the nation's energy needs ...See all stories on this topic »Washington Times
• Oil & gas pipelines make modern life possible
  Whether we want to refine oil here in Canada or ship the black gold across to Asia and other markets, we need pipelines. That's the reality for natural gas as well. In 2011, we exported $82 billion worth of oil and gas. And most of it travelled through ...See all
• Editorial: For jobs and economy, build the Keystone pipeline
  The privately financed, $5.3-billion pipeline would transport 830,000 barrels of crude oil a day from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. Obama has to personally grant a "presidential permit" for the construction because ...See all stories on this topic »Newsday
• Keystone XL pipeline would have little impact on climate change, State ...
  But the detailed environmental report — almost 2,000 pages long — also questions one of the strongest arguments for the pipeline, by suggesting that America can meet its energy needs without it. The growth in rail transport of oil from western Canada ...See all stories on this topic »Washington Post
• Pipeline would leave smaller carbon footprint
  Building the pipeline will further reduce our dependence on foreign oil, create jobs and add to our economy. We might as well face it: To convert to other forms of energy will require decades to overcome more than a century of building a petroleum ...See all stories on this topic
• Sequester heightens need for Keystone pipeline
  This underscores the need for President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. As former Obama national security adviser and retired Gen. Jim Jones has said, "[T]he country can't afford to pass up the opportunity for reliable supply from a close ...See all stories on this topic »
• Build Keystone pipeline: Our view
  At a time of rising global competition for energy resources, the pipeline would bring reliable new oil supplies to a U.S. that still imports 40% of its crude, 7.6 million barrels a day last year. And 40% of those imports come from OPEC nations such as ...See all stories on
• Koch Pipeline: 8 million hours without a lost-time incident
  Koch Pipeline Co. LP on Thursday announced it recently passed the safety milestone of 8 million work hours without a lost-time incident. Reached in December, the milestone was more than 11 years in the making. The Wichita-based company, a subsidiary of ...See all stories on this topic »
• Keystone XL is coming back
  PRESIDENT OBAMA rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline this time last year, a result that Canada had every reason to be dismayed by, as did Americans whom the project would have employed. The issue is coming back, and the president has even less ...See all stories on this topic »
• 53 senators urge approval of Keystone XL pipeline
  WASHINGTON -- More than half the Senate on Wednesday urged quick approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ramping up pressure on President Barack Obama to move ahead with the project just days after he promised in his inaugural address to respond ...See all stories on this topic »
• API campaign touts XL pipeline
  In addition to providing gasoline and heating oil, for example, refineries are also “major employers and taxpayers,” supporting more than 500,000 jobs and contributing nearly 2 percent of gross domestic product, Schild said. When it comes to the ...See all stories on this topic »
• Obama's waffling on Keystone pipeline shows poor leadership
  The time has come for President Obama to do the right thing and authorize the Keystone XL pipeline. Though he squandered two previous opportunities to do so, which would have created thousands of jobs and increased domestic oil supply, the president ...See all stories on this topic »
• Magellan Pipeline donates to WF fire department
  Members of the West Fargo Fire Department conducted a pre plan inspection tour of the Magellan Pipeline facility located in West Fargo on Tuesday, Dec. 19. Facility manager Paul Klabunde utilized the time to present West Fargo Fire Chief Roy ...See all stories on this topic »
• Letter: Enbridge will continue to transport oil products safely
  By way of background, Enbridge's Line 9 is a 30 inch oil pipeline that was originally built to supply eastern Canadian markets with western Canadian crude oil. In the 1990s, when imported oil became much more affordable, this line was reversed. Today ...See all stories on this topic »
• Letter: Enbridge will continue to transport oil products safely
  By way of background, Enbridge's Line 9 is a 30 inch oil pipeline that was originally built to supply eastern Canadian markets with western Canadian crude oil. In the 1990s, when imported oil became much more affordable, this line was reversed. Today ...See all stories on this topic »
• Pipelines are a fact of life
  Most of us would be happy if there were no pipelines anywhere but petroleum products are a necessary evil and life as we know it cannot exist without them. What is important is that these products are moved in the safest possible way. Everyday ...See all stories on this topic
• Learning to love Alberta pipelines
  On major pipelines, technology has dramatically improved safety features in the last 50 years – in construction materials, techniques, and high-tech sensor systems; 99.9% of potential leakage is stopped before it happens. Of course there have been a ...See all stories on this topic »
• Mark A. MacDonald: Pipeline offers big benefits
  In regards to potential oil spills: Yes, Enbridge's less-than-stellar record is a concern, and the Canadian government needs to make sure they, or anyone else that builds the pipeline, adheres to strict environmental rules. But we've already had a ...See all stories on this topic »
• Letter: Reversal of oil pipeline wouldn't be the problem
  Re: “Quebecers have many reasons to question pipeline plan” (Opinion, Dec. 1). What Anne Chudobiak writes makes absolutely no sense. The pipeline exists and has existed for many years. Whether you use it east to west or west to east makes no difference ...See all stories on this topic »
• Pipeline companies are safety conscious
  This is also substantiated by the fact that pipeline operators have been carrying diluted bitumen for decades without any history of increased incidents. Also, the pipeline operators would never jeopardize their safety record and reputation if they ...See all stories on this topic »