Keystone Emissions Seen as Equal to 46 Coal Power Plants
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The Keystone XL pipeline would increase greenhouse-gas emissions by 181 million metric tons, groups fighting the project said in a report, the equivalent of more than 46 coal-fired power plants or 34 million vehicles,
The finding, at odds with the environmental review by the U.S. State Department, said total emissions from the pipeline through 2050 would be greater than total U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions in 2011. The project to carry almost a million barrels of Canadian tar sands oil a day to the U.S. Gulf Coast would increase emissions of gases tied to global warming, the groups said in a statement.