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CK_John

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2. The function of that pipeline is to dump the tarsand slurry in the gulf, IMO.
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 10:19 PM
Mar 2012

To me Canada could distill the oil and keep it's own sand slurry but no...
they what to just the tarsands and let get rid of the slurry.

definition:
The trucks dump their loads into a large machine that breaks up the lumps in the sand, and then mixes it with hot water. This mixture, called a slurry, is sent by pipeline to a processing plant. (The sand in the tar sands is very abrasive ... it eats through the steel equipment used to mine it, making equipment repair costs quite high).

KeyStone is a sewer line that will be eaten away almost as soon as it used.

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