The Keystone pipeline has certainly been in the news for quite a while. Well, it turns out that there is a pipeline running the length of Wisconsin carrying tar sands crude; its name is Line 61. The company owning Line 61, Enbridge, a $40 billion Canadian company, does not have a very good record vis-a-vis spills. They've had several hundred spills in the past decade, including the largest and most expensive inland oil spill in American history.
Now, they want to increase Line 61’s capacity threefold, making it a third larger than the projected Keystone. Furthermore, a spill from tar sands crude, which Line 61 carries, can be much more destructive than that coming through Keystone.
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