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Rapid City Journal
April 26, 2018
STURGIS | Meade County commissioners want to make sure rural roads will be promptly repaired from damage from heavy truck traffic expected during the upcoming construction of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline as it bisects the northeast corner of the county on a route through South Dakota.
Platts
April 26, 2018
TransCanada is now acquiring land in Nebraska for its planned Keystone XL oil pipeline, aimed at shipping incremental volumes of Western ... The Nebraska regulators approved the 'mainline alternative,' which heads east sooner towards the existing Keystone pipeline and parallels it for 96 miles.
OilPrice.com
April 20, 2018
TransCanada will offer landowners along the route of the Nebraska section of its Keystone XL pipeline “incentive payments” in a bid to secure their quick agreement to the right-of-way acquisitions, Nebraskan media report, quoting company representatives as saying the bonus payments will be available toÃÂ ...
Omaha World-Herald
April 16, 2018
LINCOLN — Landowners opposed to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline raised a new legal argument Monday, claiming that a Canadian pipeline firm failed to take a required “first step” before ... He said it was not surprising that a group opposing the Keystone XL was raising new arguments to stop it.
Seattle Times
April 16, 2018
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The developer of the Keystone XL pipeline plans to meet with landowners along its planned route through Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana this week and will start aerial surveying of the route in all three states, a company spokesman said Monday. TransCanada Inc.
Esquire.com
April 10, 2018
Back in November, our old friend, the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning death funnel meant to transport the world's dirtiest fossil fuel from the environmental moonscape of northern Alberta to the refineries of Texas and, thence, to the world, and current conservative fetish object, sprang a leak.
Great Falls Tribune
April 9, 2018
ABERDEEN, S.D. — A crude oil spill from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota last November has turned out to be nearly twice as big as first reported. Around 407,000 gallons spilled onto farmland when the pipeline broke near Amherst in Marshall County on Nov. 16, a spokeswoman for pipeline ownerÃÂ ...
Smithsonian
April 9, 2018
The spill occurred just days before Nebraska's Public Service Commission was due to decide whether it would grant the final permit needed to begin construction on a sister pipeline, the controversial Keystone XL. Though supporters of the pipeline said that the project would bolster job development in theÃÂ ...
Law360
March 30, 2018
Not only that, but the groups have adequately alleged their interest in wildlife and wildlife habitat that could potentially be harmed by the Keystone XL pipeline, and a more thorough analysis of the pipeline and its impact on protected species and habitats would redress their injuries, according to the judge.
Outside Magazine
March 12, 2018
Save for this notch around the town, the southern half of the alternate route in Nebraska would run parallel to the existing Keystone pipeline, all the way to its southern terminus in Steele City. It's this slight deviation that could ruin the pipeline's future, because while TransCanada insists that the Keystone XLÃÂ ...
DeSmog (blog)
February 28, 2018
Koch Industries has a business interest in both pipelines, though their approval has not been something its funded network has widely discussed. Quietly, though, Koch has advocated for the pair of pipelines in regulatory hearings in both Iowa for Dakota Access — as previously reported by DeSmog — asÃÂ ...
Natural Resources Defense Council
February 28, 2018
For those keeping track at home, TransCanada, the company behind the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, has now missed its target for committing to building the project by more than two months. Meanwhile, in federal court, the government and TransCanada faced another loss in their attempt toÃÂ ...
InsideClimate News
February 22, 2018
A federal judge in Montana has ordered the Trump administration to release documents it relied on to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline last year, a development that pipeline opponents believe could stymie the controversial project. Last March, the State Department approved construction ofÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 21, 2018
6, 2017, file photo, demonstrators against the Keystone XL pipeline march in Lincoln, Neb. Opponents of the proposed oil pipeline from Canada are asking a federal judge to force the U.S. government to turn over emails and other documents related to President Donald Trump's approval of the project.
CTV News
February 16, 2018
AMHERST, S.D. -- TransCanada Corp. says cleanup of a massive on-shore oil spill from Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota is halfway finished. Last November, the pipeline leaked 210,000 gallons of crude oil onto agricultural land in Marshall County, one of the largest on-shore oil spills in the U.S. sinceÃÂ ...
Tampabay.com
December 31, 1999
Gwen Graham's vote for the Keystone pipeline not likely to dissuade billionaire Tom Steyer ... WASHINGTON – Gwen Graham's Democratic opponents have attacked her 2015 vote in Congress for the Keystone pipeline, but one of the biggest ... He called the Keystone pipeline a "dramatically stupid idea.".
Law360
February 23, 2018
Law360 (February 22, 2018, 6:54 PM EST) -- A Montana federal judge on Wednesday said the federal government must take a look at what documents it has pertaining to the Keystone XL pipeline to see if it has produced everything it is required to for two suits brought by activist groups challenging the pipeline's revival.
InsideClimate News
February 23, 2018
A federal judge in Montana has ordered the Trump administration to release documents it relied on to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline last year, a development that pipeline opponents believe could stymie the controversial project. Last March, the State Department approved construction ofÃÂ ...
Farm Forum
February 22, 2018
TransCanada, the owner of the Keystone Pipeline, is halfway through the cleanup and remediation project, according to Robynn Tysver, a spokeswoman for the company. “The work at the Amherst site has transitioned from excavation to remediation,” Tysver wrote in an email to the American News on Feb.
Omaha World-Herald
February 21, 2018
In this 2017 photo, demonstrators against the Keystone XL pipeline march in Lincoln. Opponents of the proposed oil pipeline from Canada are asking a federal judge to force the U.S. government to turn over emails and other documents related to President Donald Trump's approval of the project.
ABC News
February 21, 2018
Opponents of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada are asking a judge to force the U.S. government to turn over emails and other documents related to President Donald Trump's approval of the project. Environmentalists who sued to stop the 1,179-mile (1,800-kilometer) pipeline said theÃÂ ...
Omaha World-Herald
February 16, 2018
TransCanada spill. This photo provided by TransCanada shows the area affected by the Keystone Pipeline spill in northeastern South Dakota in November. ... AMHERST, S.D. (AP) — TransCanada Corp. says cleanup of a massive on-shore oil spill from Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota is halfway done.
Financial Post
February 13, 2018
Just as TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline finally seemed ready to roll, activists are taking one more shot at stopping it. A year after President Donald Trump gave the O.K. for the line to be built, groups including Bold Alliance and Sierra Club argue in a motion that the federal decision short-circuitedÃÂ ...
Financial Post
January 18, 2018
President Donald Trump, flanked by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, left, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, is seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Friday, March 24, 2017, during the announcing of the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8ÃÂ ...
Argus Media
January 12, 2018
Houston, 12 January (Argus) — Landowners are contesting Nebraska's approval of TransCanada's 830,000 b/d Keystone XL pipeline route, shifting the case to a state appeals court. The move adds uncertainty to the future of the project which has already faced years of delay. Dozens of NebraskaÃÂ ...
Oil and Gas Facilities
January 2, 2018
In a “corrective action order” (CAO) issued by the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to TransCanada on 28 November, the owner and operator of the Keystone Pipeline, the federal agency said the failure of the pipeline segment involved in the 16 November oil spill inÃÂ ...
Esquire.com
January 2, 2018
You may recall that, last November, our old friend the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning death funnel and longtime conservative fetish object, sprang a particularly ill-timed leak, drowning a field on the border between the two Dakotas with 210,000 gallons of the world's dirtiest carbon fuel.
iPolitics.ca
December 29, 2017
Nor will it permit the CEO of TransCanada Corporation to start digging a 1,900-kilometre trench across five states and two provinces for the long-delayed and bitterly controversial Keystone XL pipeline, intended to funnel 800,000 barrels a day of gooey, carbon-laden bitumen from Alberta to AmericanÃÂ ...
Bismarck Tribune
December 29, 2017
AMHERST, S.D. -- Although studies are continuing, a preliminary report said a problem that started during construction of the Keystone pipeline almost 10 years ago may have led to the leak of 210,000 gallons of crude oil in a prairie grass field near the South Dakota-North Dakota border in November.
Natural Gas Intelligence
December 21, 2017
TransCanada won't get another bite at the apple to change the Keystone XL oil pipeline's proposed route through Nebraska, as the state Public Service Commission (PSC) on Tuesday unanimously denied the company's request to consider a different path. The PSC declined to reconsider its Nov. 20 orderÃÂ ...
Omaha World-Herald
December 19, 2017
Nebraska PSC grants landowners' request, sets hearing over next steps on Keystone XL pipeline ÷ TransCanada, landowners ask Nebraska agency to reconsider Keystone XL ruling ÷ TransCanada to resume operation of Keystone pipeline in South Dakota ÷ Approval of alternate Keystone XL pipeline routeà...
OilPrice.com
December 31, 1999
The existing Keystone pipeline, which could be upgraded to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, leaks more often and more oil than TransCanada Corp predicted in communications to regulators and lawmakers during approval hearings, according to an earlier report by Reuters. “They testified that thisÃÂ ...
Omaha World-Herald
December 31, 1999
LINCOLN — Landowners opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline have formally appealed a Nebraska agency's approval of a pipeline route across the state. The appeal, filed by attorneys Dave Domina and Brian Jorde on Dec. 29, will be heard by the Nebraska Court of Appeals and could take months toÃÂ ...
Seeking Alpha
December 8, 2017
Last month, the Nebraska Public Service Commission approved the northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, removing the last major regulatory hurdle after the U.S. State Department signed off on the controversial project's border crossing. However, investors who still regard this project as the primary ...
RealClearEnergy
December 7, 2017
This month, Nebraska regulators approved the Keystone XL Pipeline after years of legal and partisan back-and-forth. And it comes ... The Keystone Pipeline also provides an avenue to build our relationship with Canada, a close ally whose interests strongly align with those of the United States. The energy ...
Natural Resources Defense Council
December 5, 2017
When the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) provided a special permit for TransCanada's Keystone pipeline back in 2007, they gave the company the right to push oil through at pressures equivalent to 80% of the stress level the pipeline could tolerate before deformation or ...
UConn Daily Campus
December 4, 2017
This Nov. 6, 2015, file photo shows a sign for TransCanada's Keystone pipeline facilities in Hardisty, Alberta, A Nebraska commission has approved an alternative Keystone XL route through the state, removing the last regulatory hurdle to the $8 billion oil pipeline project. The Nebraska Public Service ...
Seeking Alpha
December 1, 2017
TransCanada (TRP +1%) has raised some rates for committed and spot shippers on its Keystone crude oil pipeline effective from Jan. 1, according to a filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Committed rates for oil moving from the U.S.-Canada boundary to Illinois, Oklahoma and Texas now ...
ColorLines magazine
December 1, 2017
Amid concerns about the Keystone pipeline, environmentalists are also focused on the Keystone XL pipeline. On November 21, TransCanada obtained a permit to build this pipeline, which would be 1,100 miles long. Yet, as Colorlines reported, “Activists, tribal nations and local ranchers declared a partial ...
BillMoyers.com
November 29, 2017
Just days before the ruling, the original Keystone pipeline blurted 200,000 gallons of crude oil into South Dakota. The decision wasn't a total win for TransCanada. While the points where the pipeline could enter and leave Nebraska remain the same, the route the PSC approved differs significantly from the ...
The Hill
November 29, 2017
TransCanada, which is planning to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to expand oil capacity heading south from Alberta, Canada, removed the damaged portion of pipe and replaced it. It is being sent to a National Transportation Safety Board lab for metallurgical testing. Crews are still working to ...
HuffPost
November 29, 2017
Enbridge's Line 3 and TransCanada's Keystone XL are part of that push. The Nebraska Public Service Commission voted 3-2 this month to approve the Keystone XL addition, despite the fact that the existing Keystone pipeline had leaked 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota just days earlier. It was the ...
Business Insider
November 29, 2017
The Keystone Pipeline has spilled far more oil than TransCanada Corp, the company that operates the project, predicted. President Donald Trump gave the go-ahead for an extension, called the Keystone XL pipeline, to be built after former President Barack Obama rejected the proposal. The frequent and ...
Tulsa World
November 28, 2017
Older tanks sit next to newly constructed oil storage tanks at the Cushing Interchange, one of the largest crude-oil marketing hubs in the U.S. If ...
Newscenter1.tv
November 28, 2017
AMHERST, S.D. (AP) - TransCanada Corp. plans to resume operation of its Keystone pipeline nearly two weeks after crews shut it down in ...
Nasdaq
November 28, 2017
... asks Nebraska to reconsider approval of alternate Keystone pipeline route ... 20 decision to approve an alternative route for the Keystone XLÂ ...
PBS NewsHour
November 28, 2017
TransCanada Corp, the Canadian-based company that owns the Keystone pipeline, is asking the Nebraska Public Service Commission to ...
Omaha World-Herald
November 27, 2017
When TransCanada placed its 30-inch Keystone pipeline across Rech's ... approved a route across Nebraska for the new Keystone XL.
Business Insider
November 25, 2017
SINGAPORE, Nov 24 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil rose to a two-year high on Friday, as the shutdown of a major crude pipeline from Canada to the ...
The Hill
November 25, 2017
The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline that leaked last week, spilling more than 200,000 gallons of oil into the South Dakota ...
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