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Ease public concern over oil pipeline

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The need for environmental scientists to address the effects of tar-sands mining in Canada (Nature 468, 476; 2010) should be extended to the impacts of downstream operations.

Communities across the northern High Plains region of the United States are concerned about the risks of piping crude oil from Canadian tar sands across ecologically sensitive prairie and through an important recharge zone of the Ogallala Aquifer — the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline through the Nebraska Sand Hills.

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Gates, J. Ease public concern over oil pipeline. Nature 468, 765 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/468765a

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    May scientists and the public could believe each other.

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