Minnesota Public Radio: Group to campaign for controversial oil pipeline

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September 28, 2011
St. Paul, Minn. — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is ramping up a partnership to support the controversial proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry crude from Canada's oil sands to Texas refineries.The Chamber is recruiting businesses in Minnesota and other parts of the Midwest to promote North American fuel supplies. Sixteen Minnesota businesses have joined a regional effort to promote the controversial pipeline. The group, Partnership to Fuel America, will campaign in Minnesota and 10 other Midwestern states.High fuel costs affect customers, from families to truckers, said Dan Dorman, a former Minnesota State Representative and owner of a tire company in Albert Lea."Particularly the independent truckers, are hard-hit by those costs, and that impacts our business, impacts the number of people we're able to employ, so there's quite a trickle down from there."Read more here.