TransCanada offers new pipeline route

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: Omaha World-Herald

TransCanada Inc. submitted its proposed new route Wednesday for the Keystone XL pipeline that would avoid Nebraska's Sand Hills.

The company submitted the 51-page document, obtained by The World-Herald, to the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality. It shows a preferred corridor and three alternative corridors that were studied.
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Jane Kleeb of BOLD Nebraska said TransCanada's new route would still cross portions of the Sand Hills that aren't included on the state's map, as well as portions of the underlying Ogallala Aquifer, a major source of water for drinking, irrigation and livestock in the state.

“If TransCanada cared about our state, landowners, water and Sand Hills, they would have proposed a safer, more responsible route instead of trying to play games with landowners,” Kleeb said in a statement.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20120418/NEWS01/704199913/1009

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Jane Kleeb's comments: http://www.boldnebraska.org/keystone-xl-reroute

[BadgerKid]

1. The project that does not die.

Someone must stand to make a ton of money if this goes through.

[Zookeeper]

2. Yes, the Canadian companies will..

make a ton of money selling the oil on the world market; it won't lower our gasoline prices.

[HotRodTuna]

3. American companies (and employees) will make a ton of money as well

American oil companies have a huge stake in the Athabasca tar sands. Exxon's pretty much running the whole operation.

The oil will be coming to the states one way or another. It's either Buffet's railroad he preciently purchased (the guy's not a billioinaire for nothing), or the pipeline company's...pipelines.

Right now the cheapest gasonline in the US is in the midwest where there's a supply glut due to transportation restrictions.