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: 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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