Was OK of Keystone XL route valid? TransCanada, opponents take arguments to Nebraska Supreme Court

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Paul Hammel

LINCOLN — The long-running battle over the Keystone XL pipeline returned to the Nebraska Supreme Court on Thursday, with attorneys debating whether TransCanada received a valid green light a year ago to build the 36-inch pipeline across the state.

Much of the arguments centered on whether the Nebraska Public Service Commission had the authority to approve an alternative route — characterized by one attorney as a "political compromise" — instead of the route preferred by the Canadian pipeline corporation.

Attorney Dave Domina told the court that TransCanada needs to reapply for a route, delaying the much-delayed project several more months, because the company asked for approval of only one route and not the "mainline alternative route" OK'd by the PSC on a 3-2 vote.

"TransCanada came in riding one horse ... and it got no votes for that horse," Domina told the judges. "It lost."

FULL story at link below photo.


Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline, including Faith Spotted Eagle of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, gathered Thursday for a press conference after oral arguments before the Nebraska Supreme Court on their lawsuit to overturn the state’s approval of the Keystone XL pipeline route.

PAUL HAMMEL/THE WORLD-HERALD


Read more: https://www.omaha.com/news/courts/was-ok-of-keystone-xl-route-valid-transcanada-opponents-take/article_c901115e-b34a-57bb-8019-521fea2cfc4c.html

[PerceptionManagement]

1. If Keystone XL was in any way a good deal,

they wouldn't of had to rape Americans to get it done