New changes to Keystone XL pipeline said to protect drinking water
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Paul Hammel
LINCOLN — TransCanada Inc. on Wednesday submitted about 20 miles of changes to the proposed Nebraska route for the Keystone XL pipeline.
The changes are designed to address concerns about municipal drinking-water wellfields and sandy, erodible soils.
The new route tinkers slightly with the detour the company outlined for the 36-inch, crude-oil pipeline in April to avoid Nebraska's environmentally fragile Sand Hills, a condition suggested by federal regulators and later agreed to with the Nebraska Legislature last fall.
In the final route, two detours were outlined to avoid municipal wellfields at Clarks, Neb., which is northeast of Grand Island along the Platte River, and Western, Neb., which is west of Beatrice.
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Landowners along the new route for the Keystone XL pipeline have said it's even worse than crossing the heart of the Sand Hills. They argued that not only is the land sandy and porous, like the Sand Hills, but subject to devasting erosion that could wash out the pipeline and cause a leak that would spill into the Niobrara River and ultimately, the Missouri.
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