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Pipelines as nation-builders? Historians dubious of railway comparisons
2013-08-17 23:22:58| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
To hear some proponents of the Energy East project tell it, the moment the taps open on the $12-billion oil pipeline will be as significant as when the last spike was driven into the Canadian Pacific Railway almost 128 years ago.
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