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posted by mrpg on Monday November 20 2017, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the life-energy-and-momentum dept.

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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.

Also at Alternative Keystone XL route gets approved in Nebraska


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @05:03AM (12 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @05:03AM (#599543)

    So, who profits?

  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday November 22 2017, @09:45AM (11 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @09:45AM (#600118) Journal

    You tell me...

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:44AM (10 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @10:44AM (#600130)

      Simply ask, Cui bono

      You said to ask the question, so answer it.

      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday November 22 2017, @09:30PM (9 children)

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @09:30PM (#600359) Journal

        I did not say ask me. Besides, the question rhetorical simply because the the answer is self evident to anybody with even the most basic understanding of nature.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:17AM (8 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @01:17AM (#600449)

          the the answer is self evident to anybody with even the most basic understanding of nature.

          Gee, then it would seem to be really, really easy to just type out the answer to your own question instead of using transparent handwaving. Or did you just admit to not having "even the most basic understanding of nature"?

          • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:47AM (7 children)

            by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:47AM (#600506) Journal

            Nah, feeding you obsession is more fun to watch... Have a good day...

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:42AM (6 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:42AM (#600520)

              If I needed to feed on your wit, I'd have died of starvation a long time ago.

              We have quotebot output at the bottom of every page here at SN, and I daresay it understands more about its quotes' meanings and context than you do. Hilarious and telling that you couldn't even come up with the vaguest of hand-wavy answers to try to patch that collection of cracks holding together your facade of insight.

              • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:15AM (5 children)

                by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:15AM (#600527) Journal

                "quotebot".. is that what you use to post?

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                • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:05AM (4 children)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @08:05AM (#600554)

                  You're fascinating, like an overgrown three-legged dung beetle. I have a very hard time imagining the circumstances that allow you to be alive, and whether those circumstances call for you to perform any sort of activities one might possibly call "work", as that would almost certainly involve the impossible conundrum of willing long-term exposure of you to an adult with an IQ of 90 or more.

                  Are you a professional panhandler? Got a selection of cardboard signs and store exits you rotate through?

                  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:10PM (3 children)

                    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:10PM (#600680) Journal

                    Oh, and now you're doing copy/pasta? I'm disappointed. Well, at least you're still about as funny as a fart joke. Consider that a complement, I like fart jokes, but some new material couldn't hurt. A different chatbot perhaps...

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                    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:10PM (2 children)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:10PM (#600712)

                      Maybe you suckered someone into marrying you when you were younger, attractive, and in a State which allowed you to divorce them and then get a big payday every few weeks for life?

                      There aren't that many scenarios I can come up with that involve you obtaining necessary life resources without also immediately driving away the source of said resources due to your transparent lying [soylentnews.org], constant projecting of your own character flaws onto others who do not have them, and your juxtaposing display of arrogance and ignorance [soylentnews.org] in profound quantities.

                      I'd like to believe they broke your mold after making you, but I recently had the misfortune of watching an interview with your kindred spirit, LaVar Ball. [youtube.com] (Ball, Cuomo, and Trump all suck as far as I'm concerned.)

                      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:56PM (1 child)

                        by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:56PM (#600733) Journal

                        There aren't that many scenarios I can come up with...

                        But please! Don't stop trying. You really are quite the spectacle. And you bring tabloid press to life.

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                        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @06:14PM

                          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @06:14PM (#600743)

                          Oh, and now you're doing copy/pasta?

                          I don't suppose you'd break your untarnished record and actually provide a reference for one of your many incredible claims?