State Department draft says Keystone XL would have little effect on Nebraska's water, land

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Paul Hammel

LINCOLN — Construction and operation of the Keystone XL pipeline on its amended route across Nebraska would have mostly negligible to minor effects on farmland, water resources and the environment, a draft of the “mainline alternative route” has concluded.

The draft report, issued by the U.S. State Department on Monday, was viewed as good news for pipeline developer TransCanada, which is seeking to complete its 36-inch pipeline from the tar sands fields of Alberta to oil refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

A spokesman for the company, Matthew John, said TransCanada is reviewing the document and will provide more information to the State Department “as necessary.”

Opponents of the controversial project, meanwhile, said the Trump administration is attempting a “shortcut” to get the project built without doing legally required environmental studies.

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[Achilleaze]

1. Of course we can have absolute faith and trust in Dirty Donny*s republican State Dept.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[turbinetree]

2. BULL SHIT..............................

November 2018 cannot get here fast enough...........................vote

[jalan48]

3. So much for the big Koch-Trump fight.

[Hortensis]

4. Likely true. Until something goes wrong.

Even the temporary jobs would have little impact.

A natural gas pipeline was run a mile or so from our winter place down in Florida on an interstate power line easement. Problems with hundreds of miles of pipeline installation were minimal. I kept an eye out, but nothing. An environmental group claimed there was a problem where it crossed a river two miles from us, but we saw it. One of the plastic barriers in the water had slipped, but was small and promptly controlled.

Now grass grows where it did before and no one could guess the pipeline was there. Until something goes wrong with the pipeline someday. Maintenance, after all, is considered fat to be cut by anti-tax sorts, and we don't expect that to change. Only administrations and the very different senses of responsibility in each party.

[Recursion]

5. Shortening a pipeline in broad strokes probably improves safety somewhat

Though I still don't think oil is at a price that makes building it profitable in the end.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Until it doesn't.

It's like living next to a bomb factory, and saying it very, very rarely blows up -- completely missing the point.

[Recursion]

7. I think the issue is that the trains they're using instead blow up *more* often

It's not as if this is a choice between the pipeline shortcut and the oil not being moved at all.

[bluestarone]

8. CROCK of SHIT

Nothing but LYING FUCKERS