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Poll: More Voters Than Not Oppose Developer’s Decision to Abandon Keystone XL Pipeline
Lisa Martine Jenkins. Morning Consult

Voters have mixed reactions to the Keystone XL cancellation and to halting fossil fuel projects more generally. Morning Consult’s national tracking poll included a few questions on the Keystone XL pipeline cancellation. While voters didn’t pay much attention to it (just 12% report that they heard “a lot” about the story), more say they oppose the pipeline’s cancellation (42%) than support it (32%). The poll also asked whether voters generally believe the U.S. should “stop or continue to allow the construction of major new fossil fuel infrastructure, like pipelines.” A narrow majority (52%) are in favor of allowing new fossil fuel projects, while just 29% want to stop them.