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Posted Tue Sep 27 2011: from Washington Post:


	Keystone pipeline opponents pin hopes on Nebraska http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1317085383 Environmentalists hoping to block a proposed underground oil pipeline that would snake 1,700 miles from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico have pinned their hopes on an unlikely ally -- the conservative state of Nebraska. Few states are as red as Nebraska, which hasn't supported a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. But opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline has risen steadily since the project was proposed three years ago... Many in the public are hostile to the idea, too. When a pipeline company logo was displayed on a stadium screen during a recent Nebraska Cornhuskers game, boos rained down from the crowd of 85,000.

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'Doc Michael says:

Soon this pipeline will be nothing but a pipedream.