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Environment
4:27 pm
Thu November 18, 2010

Refinery's neighbors protest tar sands

Credit Sarah Hulett / Michigan Radio
Theresa Landrum lives near the Marathon oil refinery, seen in the background.

People who live near Detroit’s massive Marathon Oil refinery came out as part of a national protest against a proposed pipeline in the western U.S.


The Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline would transport heavy crude oil from Canada’s tar sands. That’s the same type of oil the Detroit plant is being retrofitted to be able to process.

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