"insupportable" meaning in English

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          "text": "[…] the energy debate is in danger of being corrupted by misstatements small and large. Among these is the insupportable proposition that the California energy crisis can somehow be relieved by drilling in the Arctic refuge — an idea Ms. Norton echoed when she said that new drilling would “resolve some of the problems we’ve been having lately.”",
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          "ref": "2012 May 7, “Jennifer Buckingham, Mistakes writ large if reading goes wrong”, in The Sydney Morning Herald",
          "text": "This is a critical error, which undermines the report and leads the advisory group to make a series of contradictory and insupportable recommendations.",
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