Sierra Club Sues U.S. Over Keystone XL Pipeline Documents
Source: Bloomberg
By Joel Rosenblatt Feb 5, 2014 4:32 PM ET
The Sierra Club sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the agency’s refusal to disclose documents related to its review of TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s planned Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf Coast.
The Army Corps has wrongly withheld records describing the pipeline’s path in relation to communities and sensitive water resources, according to the environmental group’s complaint filed today in federal court in San Francisco.
TransCanada applied more than five years ago for a permit to build the pipeline through the U.S. heartland, connecting oil sands in Alberta with refineries along the coast of Texas and Louisiana. The 875-mile (1,409-kilometer) pipeline would run from the U.S.-Canada border to Steele City, Nebraska. From there it would connect to an existing network.
In its final environmental review, the U.S. State Department on Jan. 31 found the Canada-U.S. oil pipeline would not greatly increase carbon emissions because the oil sands in Alberta will be developed anyway.
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-05/sierra-club-sues-u-s-over-keystone-xl-pipeline-documents.html
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