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U.S. Should Welcome Crude From Canada’s Dirty Oil Sands: View

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On first look, it might seem wrong to allow TransCanada Corp. to build the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline to carry oil from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

After all, if such a pipeline were to ever leak, as pipelines do, there is some risk it could pollute the Ogallala Aquifer under Nebraska’s Sandhills, which supplies 80 percent of that state’s drinking water.