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World Business Report: First broadcast 2017/11/20 22:32 GMT: US State Approves Keystone Pipeline

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First broadcast 2017/11/20 22:32 GMT

First broadcast 2017/11/20 22:32 GMT: US State Approves Keystone Pipeline

US State Approves Keystone Pipeline

BBC World Service - World Business Report, US State Approves Keystone Pipeline

Nebraska's approval clears the way for the controversial project to progress.

The last big procedural hurdle to the completion of Keystone XL pipeline was cleared on Monday - when five members of the Nebraska Public Service Commission voted 3 to 2 to approve an amended route through the state.

May Boeve, executive director at the group 350.org in California tells us what options environmentalists have now.

Also in the programme: what next for Europe's biggest economy? German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she'd rather have new elections than lead a minority government. Stefan Kornelius, author of two biographies and a senior editor at the Suddeutsche Zeitung in Munich says don't bet on her being ousted.

The Saudi Economy Minister Muhammad al-Tuwajiri discusses the crackdown on royal corruption - and its economic impact.

And finally, we hear one company's vision of fuelling London's buses with coffee.

(A TransCanada Keystone Pipeline pump station operates outside Steele City, Nebraska. Credit: REUTERS)

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