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Steven Lacey, writer for Climate Progress, reported asixty-story geyser of oil dumping over 20,000 gallons

of oil onto North Dakota soil. Not surprisingly this isonly one of the 2 spills that the keystone pipeline hadin its first year of operation. Now !ransCanada, the"ompany that #uilt and maintains the $eystone pipeline

system, is proposing a larger pipeline that will transporover 200,000 more #arrels of oil per day. %ost of you,however, already have your minds made up a#out the$eystone &' pipeline. (0) of you said you disagreed

with #uilding $&'. *ut don+t worry, !ransCanada promises this one will #e #etter.

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spill would threaten the land and water supply ofsome 0,000 ran"hes and farms in %ontana,8outh Dakota, and Ne#raska that produ"ed more

than 9:0 #illion worth of food in 202. ;n thosethree states alone, the pipeline would "ross ,0<=rivers, lakes, and streams, in"luding the>ellowstone iver in %ontana and the Platte

iver in Ne#raska, along with tens of thousands oa"res of wetlands. ;t would also run within a mile

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of more than =,000 wells that provide drinking anirrigation water in those states.6 Econom+

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ET8AN A&7ONM

a"h step we take toward #uilding the $eystonePipeline is a step #a"kwards for 7meri"a+s relian"e onfossil fuels. !his is the main reason we shouldn+t #uildthe keystone &' pipeline. 3e "an+t risk more harm to

the environment. 8pills are inevita#le. 3e "an onlyhope they don+t happen ;n #iologi"ally ri"h areas. ;twont signifi"antly help our e"onomy and it "ould possi#ly make that worse too. 'ast, #ringing more oil

into our "ountry will ?ust make us more reliant on fossifuels and "onseuently de"rease out energy se"urity.