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To: upanddown who wrote (157001)9/14/2011 2:24:31 PM
From: Kayaker  Respond to of 206093
 
Not easy to find exactly what Keystone XL would carry, but found this....

"....A market opportunity exists for pipeline capacity to deliver heavy WCSB crudes to the U.S. Gulf Coast to fill a gap being created by declining supply from traditional heavy crude suppliers such as Mexico and Venezuela. It is projected this gap would otherwise be filled by increasing supplies from non-Canadian sources such as the Middle East....

....With the recent announcements of the Bakken and Cushing Marketlink projects, TransCanada will also have the ability to transport 250,000 barrels per day of American crude oil from Montana, North Dakota and West Texas supplying American refineries in the U.S. mid-continent and along the U.S. Gulf Coast. As noted in the study, these projects would add capacity to bring U.S. Bakken crudes to market and/or reduce congestion at Cushing by increasing capacity to take domestic U.S. crudes to the U.S. Gulf Coast....
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transcanada.com



To: upanddown who wrote (157001)9/14/2011 4:11:17 PM
From: Bearcatbob  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 206093
 
If Keystone was all syncrude many of the pollution concerns should go away in that a spill would be a clean oil and dirty dilbit. All of the hyperbole about the Ogalalla aquifer being at risk to me is pure nonsense. Syncrude in the line would make it even more nonsensical.

Bob