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Citing the benefit to consumers at the pump, as well as to feeder companies in the oil and gas industry, Senator Portman visited Solidstate, a Columbus-based company yesterday to discuss the pipeline project.

Keystone XL, a pipeline that would pipe oil from Alberta, Canada down to Texas for refining, has become an environmental as well as political issue, with both sides working to coalesce around an approach that creates jobs, economic growth, and protects the environment in the areas where the pipeline would run.

Senator Portman is hopeful of the viability of the project, quoted in The Dispatch saying, “I do think that at the end of the day the president is going to go ahead with this.”