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The Keystone pipeline is far from certain
Terray Sylvester/Reuters Nebraska’s Public Service Commission voted 3-to-2 in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline. TransCanada still needs to make a final investment decision on the project. There are several hurdles that need to be cleared before TransCanada breaks ground. The state of Nebraska just cleared one of the last hurdles for the Keystone […]
At one end of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, there is a scene you must see to believe
Todd Korol/Reuters Nebraska regulators on Monday approved Keystone XL, a 1,180-mile-long (1,900-kilometer) extension of the existing Keystone Pipeline operated by TransCanada Corp. However, the 3-2 vote in favor of expanding the pipeline followed a leak of 210,000 gallons of oil just days prior. That oil gushed from a section of Keystone in South Dakota before […]
At least 210,000-gallon oil spill causes Keystone Pipeline closure in S. Dakota
A leak in the Keystone Pipeline released at least 210,000 gallons of oil, and the pipeline has since been shut off. The leak is now covered, according to TransCanada, the sole owner of the pipeline. The leak occurred on Thursday morning in an agricultural area in Marshall County, South Dakota. The oil has not entered […]
The Keystone Pipeline Encounters New Challenges — and New Faces
Central Nebraska is a westward trellis of tiny towns, each 10 miles or so from the next, built to service the steam engines that once fueled American manifest destiny. In between are interminable tracts of land, soybean and corn country, including the farm of Jim Carlson, whose family recently received an award for having seeded […]
‘Water is life’: Protesters rally as Keystone XL pipeline hearings begin
Published time: 7 Aug, 2017 15:48 Native American activists on horseback led hundreds of protesters opposing the Keystone XL pipeline in Lincoln, Nebraska, ahead of public hearings about the controversial project. Over 500 protesters gathered outside the state capitol on Sunday, carrying signs and banners opposed to TransCanada’s pipeline project. Potential spills from the pipeline […]
Environmental groups launch legal challenge against Keystone XL pipeline
Published time: 31 Mar, 2017 02:14 The controversial Keystone XL pipeline which was approved by the US State Department last week is now subject to a legal challenge from a coalition of environmental groups opposed to the project. The TransCanada Corp-owned pipeline will link Canada’s heavy oil sands with oil refineries in Texas and had […]
Controversial Keystone XL pipeline set to be approved
Published time: 23 Mar, 2017 21:11 The Trump administration is set to approve the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, reversing a key environmental decision of the Obama administration. The 1,700-mile pipeline would carry oil from Alberta tar sands in Canada to Houston-area refineries. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had recused himself from the approval process because […]
The Keystone pipeline won’t use US steel despite Trump’s pledge
Terray Sylvester/Reuters The Keystone XL oil pipeline won’t use American steel in its construction, despite what President Donald Trump says. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday that’s due to language in a presidential directive Trump issued in January. The directive applies to new pipelines or those under repair. Sanders said it would be […]
Thousands attend LA protest over Trump’s DAPL & Keystone XL executive orders (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)
Thousands of people marched in LA to protest US President Donald Trump’s executive orders restarting the construction of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines. The demonstration was organized in the wake of the orders that advance the projects in a move the Indigenous Environmental Network dismissed as “insane and extreme.“ Trump said he wants […]
