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Clinton: Build the Pipeline Now

February 29, 2012

Former President Bill Clinton said that the country should "embrace" the Keystone XL Pipeline, which the Obama administration has refused to approve.

Politico reports:

"One of the most amazing things to me about this Keystone pipeline deal is that they ever filed that route in the first place since they could've gone around the Nebraska Sandhills and avoided most of the dangers, no matter how imagined, to the Ogallala [aquifer] with a different route, which I presume we'll get now, because the extra cost of running is infinitesimal compared to the revenue that will be generated over a long period of time," he said.

"So, I think we should embrace it and develop a stakeholder-driven system of high standards for doing the work," Clinton added.

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