LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska regulators are set to decide Monday whether to approve a route for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the last major regulatory hurdle facing project operator TransCanada Corp.
The Nebraska Public Service Commission’s ruling is on TransCanada’s plan to complete the $8 billion, 1,179-mile pipeline to deliver oil from Alberta, Canada, to Texas Gulf Coast refineries.
A vote in favor of the company’s proposed route through Nebraska would be a major boost for the project, which was rejected by President Barack Obama in 2015. President Donald Trump revived it in March.
The project has faced a barrage of criticism from environmental activists and some landowners for nearly a decade. A ruling against the company would cast renewed doubt on the proposal and could lead to another drawn-out legal fight.
Word of the decision might spill before the official announcement.
Nebraska legislature to regulators:
Don’t worry about pipeline safety. Somebody else is taking care of that.
Just want to point out that each circle is not an individual spill.
A circle indicates the aggregate spill volume over the time period in the county at the center of the circle.
In Harris County, TX, the circle represents “over 200 spills.”
It does show the pipelines we already have too. So, why do we need a new line, why can’t they update and maintain current infrastructure?
I know there a number questions that follow: why support a dying industry at all?
Is this really just a way to expand use of eminent domain for corporations? (Yes)
The whole thing makes me sick.
It looks like Texas is just pretty toxic everywhere except the Big Bend, because it’s inaccessible.