TransCanada requires a permit from the State Department before it can commence construction on the 3,200 km Keystone XL Pipeline.
Mr Jones has said that those who have signed the letter do not have all the facts.
“I think clearly a lot of misrepresentation on the oil sands has been presented to them,” Mr Jones said.
He also added that no legislators from the states Keystone XL will traverse – Montana, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas – had signed the letter.
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The Keystone XL is a 36 inch diameter crude oil pipeline stretching from Hardisty, Alberta, and running southeast through Saskatchewan, Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. It will link up with a portion of the Keystone Pipeline that will be built through Kansas to Cushing, Oklahoma.
The pipeline will then continue on through Oklahoma to a delivery point near existing terminals in Nederland, Texas, to serve the Port Arthur marketplace.
Canada’s National Energy Board has approved the pipeline while applications for United States regulatory approvals are proceeding, and decisions are anticipated during the fourth quarter of 2010.
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