Isn't it true that the State Department's own Environmental Impact Statement included review of an alternative not to build the pipeline at all and didn't the Environmental Impact Statement conclude that building the pipeline along the preferred route was better environmentally than no pipeline at all?
Ed Whitfield: “Isn't it true that the State Department's own Environmental Impact Statement included review of an alternative not to…”
On the recordJanuary 24, 2012
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Whitfield questions the State Department's Environmental Impact Statement regarding pipeline alternatives.
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