Congressional Digest

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Keystone XL is a proposed 1,179-mile pipeline that would carry half a billion barrels of crude oil a day from the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Nebraska. It would join an existing Keystone pipeline, approved by President George W. Bush and opened in January 2014, that runs through Cushing, Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico. The pipeline would be a privately financed project, with construction cost shared between TransCanada Corporation, an energy company in Calgary, Alberta, and other oil shippers.

Although the Keystone XL pipeline would represent just a fraction of the 2.6 million miles of oil a…