A chronological history of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project
OTTAWA — A timeline of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project:
July 2008: TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) and ConocoPhillips, joint owners of the Keystone Pipeline, propose a major extension to the network, dubbed Keystone XL to carry hundreds of thousands of barrels of oilsands bitumen from Alberta to Texas.
2009: As the U.S. State Department wades through comments based on an environmental assessment of the project, TransCanada starts visiting landowners potentially affected by the pipeline. Opposition emerges in Nebraska.
June 2009: TransCanada announces it will buy ConocoPhillips’s stake in Keystone.