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Keystone XL to have “no impact” on GHGs

According to a study by IHS, a global consulting group, the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would have “no material impact” on greenhouse gas emissions or on the overall American carbon footprint. The study goes on to suggest that if the pipeline was not approved, the absence of oilsands crude in the Gulf of Mexico would be made up by an increase in heavy crude imported from Venezuela, which has a similar footprint to oilsands crude.

http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2013/08/study-keystone-xl-pipeline-would-have-no-material-impact-on-u-s-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html?cmpid=EnlDailyPetroAugust122013

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