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Keystone XL might not be last pipeline push through Nebraska
- By ART HOVEY/Lincoln Journal Star
- Oct 15, 2011
- Oct 15, 2011 Updated Oct 19, 2011
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Work on Transcanada's first Keystone pipeline, shown near David City in 2009, drew little opposition. A second project, the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, remains under federal review as opposition mounts. (ERIC GREGORY/LJS file photo)
- ERIC GREGORY/LJS file photo
Bert Straka of Stuart (right) talks to son-in-law Ross Luebbe while moving cattle near where the Keystone XL pipeline, as originally proposed, would cross their ranch.
- JACOB HANNAH/LJS file photo
This Sept. 19, 2011, aerial photo shows a tar sands tailings pond at a mine facility near Alberta, Canada. Transcanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline was to snake 1,700 miles from Canada to refineries in Texas.
- Todd Henrichs
Keystone XL pipeline
Repair crews and equipment were streaming into a Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, which suffered damage from high winds and water brought by Hurricane Rita in 2005. Valero says it plans to process more Canadian crude if or when the Keystone XL pipeline is completed. (BRIAN VANDER BRUG/Los Angeles Times)
- BRIAN VANDER BRUG/Los Angeles Times
The proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Protesters carry a mock pipeline through the crowd waiting to enter a public meeting with U.S. State Department officials about TransCanada's Keystone XL oil pipeline Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. (ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star)
- ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star
Alex Pourbaix, president of TransCanada Corp.'s energy and oil pipelines, speaks to reporters in Norfolk on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. Pourbaix met with state senators including Chris Langemeier (second from left), Speaker Mike Flood and Annette Dubas to discuss the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline through the state.
- Todd Henrichs
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By ART HOVEY/Lincoln Journal Star
When TransCanada wheeled out plans for its first Keystone pipeline through eastern Nebraska in 2006, the 2,100-mile, $5 billion project sailed through the federal approval process in 19 months.
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Work on Transcanada's first Keystone pipeline, shown near David City in 2009, drew little opposition. A second project, the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, remains under federal review as opposition mounts. (ERIC GREGORY/LJS file photo)
- ERIC GREGORY/LJS file photo
Bert Straka of Stuart (right) talks to son-in-law Ross Luebbe while moving cattle near where the Keystone XL pipeline, as originally proposed, would cross their ranch.
- JACOB HANNAH/LJS file photo
This Sept. 19, 2011, aerial photo shows a tar sands tailings pond at a mine facility near Alberta, Canada. Transcanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline was to snake 1,700 miles from Canada to refineries in Texas.
- Todd Henrichs
Keystone XL pipeline
Repair crews and equipment were streaming into a Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, which suffered damage from high winds and water brought by Hurricane Rita in 2005. Valero says it plans to process more Canadian crude if or when the Keystone XL pipeline is completed. (BRIAN VANDER BRUG/Los Angeles Times)
- BRIAN VANDER BRUG/Los Angeles Times
The proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Protesters carry a mock pipeline through the crowd waiting to enter a public meeting with U.S. State Department officials about TransCanada's Keystone XL oil pipeline Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. (ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star)
- ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star
Alex Pourbaix, president of TransCanada Corp.'s energy and oil pipelines, speaks to reporters in Norfolk on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. Pourbaix met with state senators including Chris Langemeier (second from left), Speaker Mike Flood and Annette Dubas to discuss the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline through the state.
- Todd Henrichs
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