The first stage involved placing a special concrete blanket across the depressurised pipeline.

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They are continuing to develop the pipeline, with a special focus on helping entities such low-income residential housing and community centers, and public entities.

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Only the Chinese have managed to wangle a special concession and also to build a pipeline.

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In fact, she refused requests to put abortion bills on the agenda during a special legislative session this summer, preferring to discuss the natural-gas pipeline, which she pursued in such a bipartisan manner that she ultimately won more solid support for it from Democrats than from Republicans.

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Pipeline projects, such as Keystone XL, get singled out for truly special treatment by the Occupy Anti-Development Movement, with b- and c-list celebrities sitting in East Texas trees for days at a time, and activists like Bill McKibben, Sierra Club Exec.

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