Oil pipeline opponents pin hopes on Nebraska

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Environmentalists hoping to block a proposed underground oil pipeline that would snake 1,700 miles from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico have pinned their hopes on an unlikely ally - the conservative state of Nebraska.

Few states are as red as Nebraska, which hasn't supported a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. But opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline has risen steadily since the project was proposed three years ago.

The reason: Fears of contaminating the Ogallala Aquifer, a vast subterranean reservoir that spans a large swath of the Great Plains and provides water to much of Nebraska, as well as seven other states. Opponents have grown to include Nebraska's conservative governor and two U.S. senators, a Republican and a conservative Democrat.

Many in the public are hostile to the idea, too. When a pipeline company logo was displayed on a stadium screen during a recent Nebraska Cornhuskers game, boos rained down from the crowd of 85,000. The university agreed to stop running the ads

[SpiralHawk]

1. Go Cornhuskers - this pipeline is a polluting boondoggle of epic proportions

It's does doodley squat for the US of A -- and makes a few fatcat corporatist wankers (R) even fatter.

That is all.

[Leopolds Ghost]

2. Nebraska truly does seem to have it's own culture.

Don't they, like, have an excellent system of public swimming pools that they're really proud of, or something like that?