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Planned gas pipeline to Mexico stirs controversy

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PHOENIX (AP) — A proposed route for a southern Arizona pipeline to take natural gas to Mexico is being criticized as damaging to the desert environment and opening a new route for smugglers and immigrants illegally entering the country.

The planned 60-mile-long pipeline through the Altar Valley would extend from an existing Kinder Morgan Inc. line near Tucson southward to the U.S.-Mexico border near the town of Sasabe.

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