Former South Dakota governor Mike Rounds, Republican candidate for the United States Senate, discussed his support of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline from Canada to the United States Gulf Coast Saturday afternoon in Sioux Falls.

Rounds says the pipeline will pay approximately $20 million dollars in new taxes to South Dakota local governments, be a new market for rural electric cooperatives to sell power to and help free up the lack of trains and box cars at harvest time that are now being used to ship oil from the Bakken Formation in North Dakota.

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