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there would be no significant environmental impact to most resources along the proposed pipeline route, which goes through Montana, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. The report also said other options to get the oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries are worse for climate change.
• State Department approval is needed because the project crosses a U.S. border.
• On at least one aspect of the pipeline, Obama is "flat-out-wrong," Terry said. While some oil is likely to be exported, the total is far less than a majority, Terry said. "That was disturbing to me," he said.
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• BOB MOEN,Associated Press
• CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Wyoming residents can start thinking about their lucky numbers and dreaming about hitting the big one.
• Gov. Matt Mead signed a bill into law Wednesday that lets the state create a lottery or join a multi-state game such as Powerball.
• Wyoming is one of about a half dozen states without such prize drawings.
• While he's personally "lukewarm" about a lottery, Mead said he was persuaded by the prospect of Wyoming benefiting from its potential revenue and retaining the money that state residents have been spending on lottery tickets in bordering states.
• "For me it was a question of how many people we have leaving the state, participating in the lottery in other states, and in doing so taking Wyoming money, Wyoming people out of the state, and not only buying a lottery (ticket) but the Coca-Cola, and the hotdog, the movie maybe or the dinner," he said.
• A lottery would bring an estimated $25 million a year to Wyoming. After expenses and prizes, it would net the state an estimated $6 million annually.
• Under the law, the first $6 million in lottery proceeds will go to local governments. Any additional proceeds would go to a public school foundation fund.
• The Legislature will review where the money is being spent after six years.
• The use of the proceeds was a topic of debate as the bill moved through the Legislature, but Mead said he was OK with the money going to local governments first.
• "I've continued to look at ways of providing more revenue to towns and counties," he said.
• Mead has until July 1 to appoint a nine-member board that will oversee the quasi-governmental corporation that will run the lottery. It'll take about a year to get the lottery up and running.
• While not wanting to pre-empt the future lottery board's decisions, Mead said it

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