Saturday, January 5, 2013

Nebraska environment report favors revised Keystone XL pipeline plan

Reuters: The controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline received a boost on Friday when Nebraska regulators said its proposed new route would avoid many of the ecologically-sensitive areas that led the U.S. government to block it last year. The new route for the $5.3 billion Alberta-to-Nebraska pipeline, backed by TransCanada Corp, would avoid the ecologically sensitive Sand Hills region but would still cross part of the massive Ogallala aquifer, the Nebraska environment regulator said. If built, Keystone...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/04/us-transcanada-keystone-nebraska-idUSBRE9030JC20130104

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