The U.S. State Department issued an environmental overview of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline on Thursday that said the project used to be not likely to extend the % of Canadian oil sands development. The 1,179-mile (1,900-km) pipeline would move 830,000 barrels per day of oil sands crude from Hardisty, Alberta, throughout the U.S. border to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would connect with a prior to now authorized line. Environmentalists and other critics have called on President Barack Obama to reject the plan, pronouncing it can hasten local weather alternate by using selling oil-harvesting methods in Alberta that produce high levels of carbon dioxide emissions. Under are details of which groups would benefit and which would be disenchanted from the State Department’s conclusions.
Factbox: Possible winners and losers from Keystone XL review
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