General Electric Pipelines

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General Electric is investing heavily on oil and gases in the past decade. They create equipment for the pipelines that will supply the oil. Also they make the technology that ensures that a pipeline doesn’t leak or explode. GE also creates equipment for the drilling part of fracking which is a very complex way to get the oil so GE had to create a special drill to do so. GE right now is the biggest supplier in equipment for Oil and Gases. But with with the protest with the keystone pipeline GE might slow down production of its

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