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April 6, 2020

Construction of Keystone XL Pipeline to Resume Despite Coronavirus and Environmental Threats
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In environmental news, construction on the Keystone XL pipeline is set
to resume. Officials in Alberta, Canada, said they would hand over more
than $1 billion to TC Energy - formerly known as Trans Canada - so that
construction can continue, even though it risks putting construction
workers and residents on the pipeline's path - many of them from
indigenous communities - at heightened risk for contracting the
coronavirus. South Dakota and several other states recently passed new
laws criminalizing protests against pipelines.


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