A Closer Look At The Transcanada Keystone XL Pipeline [AUDIO]

About 300 people attended the Transcanada Keystone XL Pipeline public meeting with the U.S. Department of State in Glendive Tuesday afternoon. Supporters say  the $7 billion project will create 20,000 new jobs but a handful of pipeline protesters at the meeting say the majority of those jobs will not go to Americans. County Commissioner in Philips County Richard Dunbar says that if the company is allowed to build the pipeline, it is going to mean a lot of money for electricity.

Communications director for Friends Of The Earth, Nick Berning says the pipeline would transport some of the worlds’ dirtiest oil.

Berning says Transcanada’s Keystone I pipeline has had 14 spills and leaks since the beginning of  operations in 2010. This  proposed pipeline would transport approximately 830,000 barrels of oil per day through six states between Canada and the gulf of Mexico.