MAP: TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline

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Published November 4, 2011 at 4:12 PM EDT

In 2010, TransCanada completed a major pipeline — the Keystone — which runs from Alberta to Illinois. The company is now planning a second line, called the Keystone XL, that would run from Alberta to Nebraska with an extension from Oklahoma to the refineries on the Gulf Coast.

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