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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: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 22 2017, @12:06AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @12:06AM (#599977)

    My experience is that the Republicans just do things like this, while the Democrats are generally two-faced about it. As in, the pattern from Democrats is talking up a great game while their actions show something very different.

    For instance, with regards to the DAPL, the Obama administration did absolutely nothing. It's not like they didn't know that the police department and private security guards were unlawfully turning dogs on journalists and shooting at them with rubber bullets and firehoses - that stuff was first on Youtube and later on CNN. It's not like they couldn't have been saying something about it in their daily news briefings. It's not like they couldn't have sent US Marshals in to protect the protesters. It's not like they couldn't have sent medical aid to the protesters who were getting hit with flash grenades. And instead they were unwilling to actually do anything until the (illegal as it turns out) pipeline was fait accompli and acted like "Oh well, there was nothing we could do."

    They aren't exactly equivalent, but the results aren't all that different either.

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