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Judges rule study not needed for oil sands project
Posted by Greenwire: Robin Bravender on September 29th, 2015
Greenwire: Federal judges today denied environmentalists' challenge to a 600-mile pipeline carrying oil sands crude from Illinois to Oklahoma.
Attorneys from the Sierra Club and National Wildlife Federation told the court that the government should have conducted more thorough environmental assessments of Enbridge Inc.'s Flanagan South pipeline, but the three-judge appeals panel today rejected their argument.
Central to environmentalists' case was their contention that the government should have analyzed...
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