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Signs point to U.S. approval of oil sands pipeline

Houston Chronicle | July 14, 2011 | 6:15 am Energy Europe

At a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania in early April, President Barack Obama was asked about a bitter fight between industry and environmentalists over a proposed $7 billion, 2,000-mile pipeline to ship crude from Alberta’s oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries.