TransCanada to move pipeline
LINCOLN - Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood said Monday that TransCanada has agreed to move the Keystone XL pipeline out of the Nebraska Sand Hills.
Flood said late Monday afternoon that he had just gotten the word from TransCanada officials that they would voluntarily change their original route. The new route will steer clear from the ecologically sensitive Sand Hills, which overlie the Ogallala Aquifer.
He introduced an amendment to a bill by State Sen. Chris Langemeier of Schuyler that sets out the process for a state review of the new Keystone XL route.
Flood is proposing an amendment saying that Nebraska will do a supplemental environmental impact statement to go along with the Obama administration's decision to delay a federal permit for the pipeline until 2013 to further explore routes that bypass the Sand Hills and underlying Ogallala Aquifer.
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