Flood: TransCanada to move pipeline (Keystone XL)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Paul Hammel and Martha Stoddard

LINCOLN - Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood said Monday that TransCanada has agreed to move the Keystone XL pipeline out of the Nebraska Sand Hills.

Flood said late Monday afternoon that he had just gotten the word from TransCanada officials that they would voluntarily change their original route. The new route will steer clear from the ecologically sensitive Sand Hills, which overlie the Ogallala Aquifer.

Also Monday as the Legislature began debate on pipeline routing bills, he introduced an amendment to a bill by State Sen. Chris Langemeier of Schuyler that sets out the process for a state review of the new Keystone XL route.

Flood is proposing an amendment saying that Nebraska will do a supplemental environmental impact statement to go along with the Obama administration's decision to delay a federal permit for the pipeline until 2013 to further explore routes that bypass the Sand Hills and underlying Ogallala Aquifer.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20111114/NEWS01/711159995#flood-transcanada-to-move-pipeline

[msongs]

1. a few crumbs to get obama and co to cave in. they've been talking to repubs lol nt

[caraher]

2. As bad as the pipeline route was

I'm almost more worried that they'll "fix" it when the long-term problem is mining the sands for petroleum, regardless of the characteristics of the pipeline.

[bvar22]

3. Obama played this one just right!

Kudos to President Obama!
Smart politics to delay the capitulation until after the 2012 election.



Ogallala Aquifer



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
Solidarity99!
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[GeorgeGist]

4. You forgot ...

:sarcasm:

[wordpix]

5. +1 let's hope for a breakthrough in clean tech, like battery storage

[freshwest]

6. Making the USA inhabitable, one huge environmental disaster at a time?

Where's that Calvin & Hobbes cartoon panel when we need it?

Fourth series of panels down...

http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/calvinhobbes.htm

Why will they exterminate life on Earth?

"We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job."

Humanity is pathetic and this planet is the universe's insane asylum.