TransCanada refiles application in Nebraska for Keystone XL pipeline route
CALGARY — TransCanada is once again seeking approval of its Keystone XL pipeline route in Nebraska in the latest move to push the polarizing project forward since getting a nod from U.S. President Donald Trump.
The energy company says the application it filed with the Nebraska Public Service Commission Thursday is the clearest path to achieving route certainty, adding that it expects a decision from the commission by the end of the year.
But with Nebraska the source of some of the fiercest resistance to Keystone XL in the U.S., those opposed to the project are also looking to the commissions’ public hearing process to halt or reroute the project over concerns a spill could contaminate the Ogallala Aquifer and damage property.
“We’re an ag state not an oil state, and so we don’t think that we should be risking our water supplies and the agricultural economy so Canada can get their tarsands to the export market,” said Jane Kleeb, president of the Bold Alliance group that is pushing against the project.