[Ost-news] "Chiefs want pipeline royalties"-- Keystone

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Chiefs want pipeline royalties  
By Paul Turenne

A group of southern Manitoba chiefs is asking the federal court to overturn Ottawa’s decision to allow a massive pipeline project to be built in the province because the chiefs say the government did not fulfill its duty to consult them about it.

TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline project, approved by the National Energy Board and the federal cabinet last fall, would pump more than half a million barrels of oil per day from Alberta to Illinois and Oklahoma.

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    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/quotchiefs-want-pipeline-royaltiesquot-keystone

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