Moreover, President Obama has already approved part of KXL and that part which will run from Cushing, Oklahoma to Houston, is already under construction.

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The proposal mainly focuses on the transportation of US Bakken Crude oil, estimated to be approximately 15-25% of KXL shipments, while ignoring the amount of Canadian oil, which needs to be transported.

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The truth is that counties in Nebraska have been reducing their tax rates due to income from the original Keystone pipeline (which by the way goes through the same aquifer as the proposed KXL) and unemployment is all but nonexistent in and around the Dakotas, thanks to the energy boom created by crude oil exploration there.

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