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Keystone Pipeline–Cancer Risk (picture)
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is now accusing the Keystone pipeline of being a cancer risk.
Her first point was that the pipeline “will bring 830,000 barrels of dirty tar sands oil into our nation every day.”
She then segued to point #2 by asserting that the heavy tar sands oil will put people who live near refineries at risk for cancer:
Significantly higher levels of dangerous air pollutants and carcinogens have been documented downwind from tar sands refineries, and in these areas people are suffering higher rates of the types of cancers linked to these toxic chemicals, including leukemia and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Boxer then cited examples of the danger, explaining that the tar sands oil will “flow to our Gulf Coast refineries, increasing the toxic air pollution that already plagues communities like Port Arthur, Texas.” MOREHER4E
