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Some Texans, too, resist Keystone XL Pipeline

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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

Some Texans, too, resist Keystone XL Pipeline

• By Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times
• Jan 29, 2011
• Jan 29, 2011 Updated Feb 8, 2011
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Repair crews and equipment were streaming into a Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, which suffered damage from high winds and water brought by Hurricane Rita in 2005. Valero says it plans to process more Canadian crude if or when the Keystone XL pipeline is completed. (BRIAN VANDER BRUG/Los Angeles Times)

• BRIAN VANDER BRUG/Los Angeles Times

Workers remove absorbent booms during the cleanup effort at a Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, which suffered damage from high winds and water brought by Hurricane Rita in 2005. Texas is no stranger to the oil business and the trouble it can sometimes bring, but many Texans are balking at a TransCanada Corp. proposal to pipe oil from Canada to Texas. (BRIAN VANDER BRUG/Los Angeles Times)

• BRIAN VANDER BRUG/Los Angeles Times

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By Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times

PORT ARTHUR, Texas --  Texas has rarely met an oil business it didn't like. Ever since Spindletop sent a gush of crude 150 feet into the air near here in 1901, Texans have been mostly willing to put up with the spills, smokestack belches and massive refinery vistas that go along with big, fat pots of "Texas tea."

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