Judge says Keystone XL pipeline suit should go to trial

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Paul Hammel and Joseph Morton

LINCOLN — Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline won a round in court Tuesday when a judge turned down a request to dismiss their amended lawsuit against the state.

This came a day after the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., claiming that the State Department is withholding documents related to the project and potential conflicts of interest with the consultant who worked on the report.

Meanwhile, Nebraska GOP Rep. Lee Terry defended the pipeline Tuesday in a speech at the Canadian Embassy. He said it would create jobs and “has been the most studied pipeline perhaps in the history of the world.”

In Lincoln, the State of Nebraska had asked that a lawsuit brought by three landowners impacted by the crude-oil pipeline be dismissed.


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[TRoN33]

1. GOP are hiding the fact...

Lee Terry knew this fact but he won't even dare to mentioned it to the public, the permanent job numbers for keystone pipelines will only be 35. Merely 35 and it will goes to the corporations' favored people.

[Berlum]

2. Terry (R) is a total right-wing twit, lying about Keystone and all the rest

[nykym]

3. ANother issue is

that Tar Sands are not classified properly.

http://grist.org/news/good-news-arkansas-tar-sands-oil-isnt-oil-oil/

“A 1980 law ensures that diluted bitumen is not classified as oil, and companies transporting it in pipelines do not have to pay into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund,” writes Ryan Koronowski at Climate Progress. “Other conventional crude producers pay 8 cents a barrel to ensure the fund has resources to help clean up some of the 54,000 barrels of pipeline oil that spilled 364 times last year.”

[pam4water]

4. Good I hope they can stop it.

[blkmusclmachine]

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