Rockies Express Pipeline (something to compare the Keystone XL project to)
The Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) is one of the largest pipelines ever constructed in the United States. REX became fully operational in November 2009. The 1,679-mile pipeline stretches from northwestern Colorado to eastern Ohio and boasts 1.8 billion cubic feet per day of capacity.
REX is a joint venture of KMP (we own 50 percent and operate the pipeline), Sempra Pipelines and Storage and ConocoPhillips. Long-term, binding firm commitments have been secured for virtually all of the pipeline's capacity. The pipeline is enabling producers to deliver gas from the Rocky Mountains eastward and is helping to ensure that there will be adequate supplies of natural gas to meet growing demand in the Midwest and eastern parts of the country.
For documentation associated with the Rockies Express Pipeline project, CLICK HERE.
http://www.kindermorgan.com/business/gas_pipelines/rockies_express/Doing a few cursory searches you can see the impact it had/has:
Google/Bing the following:
Rockies Express Pipeline
but one example (eminent domain issue - and there were quite a few)
http://www.freewebs.com/residentsagainstrex/OH...and there is THIS:
Did White House ties power pipeline approval?
Elizabeth II, queen of England, was the guest of honor in May 2007 at the White House State Dining Room. The host, President George W. Bush, was resplendent in white tie and tails. The menu included spring pea soup with fernleaf lavender, Dover sole almondine with roasted artichokes and saddle of spring lamb with fricassee of baby vegetables. After-dinner entertainment was provided by master violinist Itzhak Perlman.
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The 137 guests included Vice President Dick Cheney, Nancy Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Cabinet secretaries, leaders of the House and Senate — and the man who is building an interstate natural gas pipeline soon to cut through Ohio.
Richard D. Kinder of Houston, a former Enron Corp. president who built a pipeline empire as Enron collapsed in scandal, had reason to feel like celebrating. Less than three weeks earlier, the presidentially appointed Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, had approved the western half of his Rockies Express, one of the largest natural gas pipelines in U.S. history. And his companies were proceeding on the assumption that FERC would OK the second half, called REX East, which will bisect southern Ohio. That approval came this May 30, just as the REX West project went into service from Colorado to Missouri.
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But some opponents in Ohio see REX as an unstoppable juggernaut that won federal approval over the objections of state and local governments, property owners, businesses and environmentalists. FERC's approval came even though the Ohio Power Siting Board and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources opposed REX's plans to lay pipe through Caesar Creek State Park and under the Big Darby Creek and Little Miami River. The siting board has asked FERC to reconsider.
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"Kinder is one of the richest men in America, so there was a lot of clout behind this," Rowe said. "Not just a little — a lot. It came straight from the White House. We were told that by FERC: 'This is not something you can fight. It's going to happen.' "http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/09/14/ddn091408pipelinekinder.htmlSo much more to find/read - but at least we have a somewhat similar pipeline (natural gas, not oil) to examine.
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