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TransCanada’s Keystone XL Southern Segment: Construction Problems Raise Questions About the Integrity of the Pipeline

Mark Hefflinger, Bold Alliance (Photo: Bryon Houlgrave/Des Moines Register

By Mark Hefflinger

May 3, 2021

TransCanada’s Keystone XL Southern Segment: Construction Problems Raise Questions About the Integrity of the Pipeline

A new report from Public Citizen released on Nov. 12, 2013 documents construction problems and more than 125 excavations of possible anomalies and engineering code violations along the Texas portion of the Keystone XL pipeline that, if unaddressed, pose a heightened risk of spills of highly toxic tarsands.

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