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Nebraska regulators approved an alternative route Monday for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. It was the last major regulatory hurdle facing project operator TransCanada Corp., though opponents say another round of federal approval may now be needed.
The Nebraska Public Service Commission's ruling was on the Nebraska route TransCanada has proposed to complete the $8 billion, 1,179-mile (1,897-kilometer) pipeline to deliver oil from Alberta, Canada, to Texas Gulf Coast refineries. The proposed Keystone XL route would cross parts of Montana, South Dakota and most of Nebraska to Steele City, Nebraska.
The long-delayed project was rejected by President Barack Obama in 2015, citing concerns about carbon pollution. President Donald Trump revived it in March, approving a permit.
[...] The five-member Nebraska Public Service Commission was forbidden by law from factoring pipeline safety or the risk of spills into its decision because pipeline safety is a federal responsibility. So, it couldn't take into account a spill of 210,000 gallons (790,000 liters) of oil on the existing Keystone pipeline in South Dakota announced on Thursday.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @12:23AM (8 children)
That's obviously why you aren't in charge of anything important. If the pipe didn't make somebody money, they wouldn't build it.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 21 2017, @12:27AM (3 children)
I expect whoever is paying for that pipe thinks that Donal Trump will be elected to a second term.
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:41PM (2 children)
In 2015 I said to the American people: I own over $250,000 in TransCanada Pipelines stock, but not over $500,000. The ticker symbol is TRP, I had to buy that one. You know I had to buy it, for the same reason you, I assume, own M.D.C. Holdings. And it's doing amazingly today (they both are). It's not amazing, the Nebraska thing is great news. For me, for you, for TransCanada, for M.D.C. Holdings, for 🇨🇦, for 🇺🇸. America First!
I ABSOLUTELY will be elected to a second term. That's a 100% certainty. Noah from the future said so. He's not a smart guy, to be perfectly honest he's a dummy. SEVERELY handicapped in the head. Mentally he's not all there. But he comes from the future so he knows things other people don't. I knew I would win in 2020. But some people doubted it. Just like they doubted I would win in 2016. Not any more. youtu.be/ag8E-p4v_24 [youtu.be] #TRUMP2020 [twitter.com] #WINNING [twitter.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:06PM (1 child)
I've been stressing over a woman who may be married. Her ring isn't always there, and sometimes she wears it on her right hand.
You gave me a belly laugh. I needed that.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:27PM
So you're gonna be worth a lot. You're telling me you've got a girlfriend, do you get a prenuptial agreement? You get married, and then for some reason over the next couple of years you get divorced and then she sues you for $10 billion and she hits the jackpot. In New York, she would get a big chunk of what you have. A prenup is an ugly instrument, but you'd better have one. If I didn't have mine, I would not own all these beautiful buildings. I'm notoriously cheap with these things, OK, because I think if she made $1 million, that would be very good. Vagina is expensive. But don't overspend. Always, always get the prenup. With women that's the biggest thing to remember.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Mykl on Tuesday November 21 2017, @12:48AM (3 children)
Oh, it's making money for a lot of people:
What's not clear is whether the pipeline will, in the end, make any money for oil producers and distributors.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @01:44AM (2 children)
I wish we lived in a world where those four realized they could still make money without oil. Perhaps instead of paying for an oil pipeline, subsidize residential solar.
But no. We have to have oil. Because that helps keep people riled up and divided against each other.
(Score: 3, Informative) by drussell on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:10AM (1 child)
You do realize that oil is used for many other things than just powering cars and electricity production, right?
Even if you go all "residential solar" for your power and you drive an electric car, we all still need oil for a bazillion other things. Production can be modified to produce, for example, less of the fractions used to produce gasoline but increase production of fractions used for other purposes.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:09PM
Just one word.
"Plastics".
Enough said.
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