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11-11-2011, 11:31 AM #1
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Keystone XL / Politics over Common Sense ?
Keystone pipeline route in Nebraska to be reassessed
By Juliet Eilperin, Published: November 10
The Obama administration will delay action on a controversial cross-country oil pipeline in order to assess a shift in its route, officials announced Thursday, effectively putting off a politically vexing decision until after next year’s election.
The move is the latest twist in a more-than-three-year review process that has evolved from a fairly routine decision within the federal bureaucracy to a very public debate over national energy policy. It pitted environmental activists and an array of citizens along the pipeline’s proposed route against business groups, oil companies and unions whose members would be employed as part of the $7 billion project.
The U.S. State Department delayed plans to approve TransCanada's construction of an oil pipeline from Western Canada to refineries in Houston in order to explore other routes for the pipeline. (Nov. 10)
Officials at the State Department, which oversees the permitting process, had once promised a decision on the proposal by Alberta-based TransCanada by year’s end. But they said Thursday that they had to extend their review of the 1,700-mile pipeline to address Nebraskans’ objections to building across the state’s sensitive Sandhills region. That area provides habitat for imperiled wildlife and covers the Ogallala Aquifer, a critical source of drinking and irrigation water for state residents.
Kerri-Ann Jones, assistant secretary in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, told reporters that choosing a new route for the Nebraska portion of the pipeline will require a new environmental assessment, which will probably take at least 15 months.
“We’re being responsive to what we’ve heard from the public,â€
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11-11-2011, 11:42 AM #2
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15 months for an environmental assessment? The pipeline is 1,700 miles long. Per mile of assessment how long did the first one take? How much would it take to assess a few hundred miles worth if rerouted , when the majority has already been studied? There are already thousands of miles of pipeline already there. This is a shovel ready project , not financed by the taxpayers that has the potential of affecting 100,000 plus jobs either through direct creation or secondary effect.
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