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• "If Keystone XL is not built, it's clear that the oil will move to market by truck, rail and tanker, which will significantly add to global greenhouse gas emissions to move the product," Girling said. Pipelines far safer than any other option, he added.
• Canada's natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, said Tuesday the proposed pipeline meets Obama's requirement that it not lead to a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
• Oliver pointed to the State Department report, which he said concluded that the pipeline "is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands" of Alberta, where the pipeline would begin.
• The pipeline would carry 800,000 barrels of oil a day across six states to refineries along the Gulf Coast. A southern leg from Cushing, Okla., to ports near Houston, already has been approved and construction is proceeding.
• Supporters say the pipeline would create thousands of jobs, help lower fuel prices and bolster North American energy resources.
• Opponents call the project a "carbon bomb" that would carry "dirty oil" that could trigger global warming. They also worry about a spill. Converting tar sands into oil uses as much as 15 percent more energy than conventional oil production.

• Obama has twice thwarted the pipeline project amid concerns about a proposed route through environmentally sensitive land in Nebraska. The state's governor and congressional delegation -- all Republicans -- have either backed the plan or relaxed their opposition after the project was re-routed last year.
• A national poll by the Pew Research Center showed that 66 percent of those polled favor building the pipeline, compared with 23 percent who oppose it.
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Court ruling assault on tribes, Abourezk says
  • KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The former South Dakota lawmaker who authored the law meant to keep Native American families together called Tuesday's ruling by the Supreme Court that a Native American child doesn't have to be given to her biological father "an assault on tribal sovereignty."

• Former U.S. Sen. James Abourezk was the key lawmaker behind the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law intended to keep American Indian children from being taken from their homes and typically placed with non-Native American adoptive or foster parents. The application of the law was at the heart of custody case the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.

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