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• Canada National Energy Board - Reasons for Decision: TransCanada PipeLines Limited and TransCanada Keystone Pipeline GP Ltd. MH-1-2006

  http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/NE22-1-2007-1E.pdf
  Official government report discusses the background and the report of the National Energy Board (NEB) with regard to the application by TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. and TransCanada Keystone Pipeline GP Ltd. to transfer certain pipeline facilities presently comprising part of the TransCanada mainline natural gas transmission system from TransCanada to Keystone for use in Keystone's proposed new oil pipeline. Included in the data is information on the regulatory standard, a discussion of energy supply, markets and pipelines, and the potential impacts of the transfer.

• CNN Money - Fact Checking Keystone Jobs Claims

  http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/18/news/economy/keystone-jobs/
  Explains why job claims of supporters overstate the actual jobs impact.

• CNN.com - Keystone XL Pipeline Debate: What Do I Need to Know?

  http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/18/politics/keystone-pipeline-senate-vote-explainer/
  Primer on the contentious pipeline project that would ship crude oil from Canada to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast. Includes links to earlier news reports.

• Congressional Research Service - Keystone XL Pipeline Project: Key Issues

  https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41668.pdf
  Official government report R41668.

• Congressional Research Service - Oil Sands and the Keystone XL Pipeline: Background and Selected Environmental Issues

  http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/crs/R42611.pdf
  Official government report R42611.

• FactCheck.org - Pipeline Primer

  http://www.factcheck.org/2014/03/pipeline-primer/
  Examines the facts about jobs, spills, climate change and gasoline prices as they relate to the Keystone XL project. From the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

• Huffington Post - Keystone Pipeline

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/keystone-pipeline/
  Collected news, blogs, pictures and videos relating to the Keystone XL pipeline, proposed to run from the tar sands oil fields in Alberta, Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

• InsideClimate News - The Dilbit Disaster

  http://insideclimatenews.org/topic/dilbit-disaster
  Collected news and analysis relating to the 2010 Enbridge, Michigan pipeline leak. Includes timeline, primer, and TransCanada plans for expansion of the pipeline.

• Keystone XL Pipeline

  http://keystone-xl.com/
  TransCanada's official site to promote approval by the U.S. government of the expansion of their pipeline network in the United States.

• Natural Resources Defense Council - Stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline Project

  http://www.nrdc.org/energy/keystone-pipeline/
  Advocacy group NRDC explains their opposition to transporting raw, toxic tar sands oil p from Alberta, Canada to refineries in Texas, which threatens to wreak environmental havoc on both sides of the border.

• Nebraska's Keystone XL Pipeline Evaluation

  https://ecmp.nebraska.gov/deq-seis/Default.aspx
  Official government site provides a FAQ, public documents, meeting documents, press releases, and comments. From the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.

• New York Times - The Dangers of Diluted Bitumen Oil

  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/opinion/the-dangers-of-diluted-bitumen-oil.html?_r=0
  The nation’s pipeline network is governed by laws and regulations that were written long before the unique risks and hazards associated with dilbit began to emerge.

• The Economist - Keystone Pipeline

  http://www.economist.com/topics/keystone-pipeline
  Collected news, analysis and opinion from an international perspective focused on business, politics, science and technology.

• The Guardian - Keystone XL Pipeline

  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/keystone-xl-pipeline
  Collected news, analysis and commentary about the energy, environmental and political issues of TransCanada's proposed pipeline expansion from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

• The Hill - TransCanada CEO: "We need" Keystone

  http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/229044-transcanada-ceo-we-need-keystone
  "The demand continues to be there and support continues to be there", according to Russ Girling.

• The New York Times - Keystone XL Pipeline

  http://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/keystone-xl-pipeline
  Collection of recent and archived news and commentary, photos, multimedia and selected web resources.

• The Tyee - Nikiforuk: Yes, Refine Oil Sands Crude Right Here

  http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/09/22/Refine-Oil-In-Canada/
  Explains why former premier Peter Lougheed is right: piping raw bitumen to the U.S. is a lousy deal for Alberta's people.

• The Washington Post - Fact Checker: Will Keystone XL Pipeline Create 42,000 'New' Jobs?

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/01/06/will-keystone-xl-pipeline-create-42000-new-jobs/
  Explains why a State Department figure frequently cited by pipeline supporters requires a lot of context.

• TransCanada Corporation Blog - Dilbit, What Is It?

  http://blog.transcanada.com/dilbit-what-is-it/
  TransCanada answers common questions about crude oil and diluted bitumen transported in the Keystone Pipeline.

• Wikipedia - Keystone Pipeline

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline
  Crowd-sourced encyclopedia article about the oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States.

• Wilson Center - The Politics and Process of Keystone XL

  http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-politics-and-process-keystone-xl
  Webcast (1:32:18) of the event hosted by the Canada Institute, which convened a panel of experts to discuss the reasons for the KXL pipeline becoming a political football, what the proposed project means for the 2014 elections, the legal underpinnings of the approval process, and the future, both in Nebraska and in Washington, D.C.

• Wisconsin State Journal - Enbridge Pipeline Expansion, Larger than Keystone, Drawing Some Dane County Skeptics

  http://host.madison.com/news/local/environment/enbridge-pipeline-expansion-larger-than-keystone-drawing-some-dane-county/article_6e0902a9-cf15-5fcc-8bf6-81ce96f370ba.html
  The largest importer of tar sands crude oil from western Canada plans to triple capacity of one of its pipelines through Wisconsin, a few hundred miles east of the higher-profile Keystone pipeline.

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