US judge rejects bid to kill Keystone pipeline lawsuits

[TexasTowelie]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Environmentalists and Native Americans can proceed with lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, a federal judge in Montana ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Brian Morris expressed skepticism over government arguments that Trump has unilateral authority to approve the $8 billion pipeline. In a separate ruling, the judge said the Rosebud Sioux and Fort Belknap Indian tribes had valid claims that approval of the line violated their treaty rights.

But Morris denied a request from environmentalists to impose a court injunction blocking preliminary work on the pipeline, since no such work is planned until spring 2020.

Morris had blocked work on the line in 2018, prompting Trump to issue a new permit in March in an attempt to circumvent the courts.

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(Odessa American)

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. That pipeline is not inevitable.

[Takket]

2. Wasn't there just a huge leak from the existing pipeline a few months ago?

That should have killed all discussion of this nonsense once and for all.