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Recently, President Barack Obama cited numerous ecological and fiscal protests against the building of the Keystone XL Pipeline facility. The proposed $5 billion facility is projected to transport more than 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta, Canada south through the United States and onto the Gulf of Mexico. The construction and operation of the facility is expected to generate and sustain approximately 40,000 jobs. It must be noted that the debate regarding the Keystone facility resembles that of another highly charged environment related project, the Trans-Alaska pipeline facility (Moore, Griffith 1).
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