{"id":16086,"date":"2016-01-06T11:51:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16086"},"modified":"2016-01-06T11:51:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:51:20","slug":"breaking-transcanadas-hopes-for-zombie-keystone-xl-pipeline-revived-as-south-dakota-validates-expired-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16086","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: TransCanada\u2019s Hopes For \u201cZombie\u201d Keystone XL Pipeline Revived As South Dakota Validates Expired Permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2016\/01\/05\/breaking-transcanada-s-hopes-zombie-keystone-xl-pipeline-revived-south-dakota-validates-expired-permit\" target=\"_blank\">Breaking: TransCanada\u2019s Hopes For \u201cZombie\u201d Keystone XL Pipeline Revived As South Dakota Validates Expired Permit<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-10193 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<header>\n<p class=\"submitted desktop-only\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2016\/01\/05\/breaking-transcanada-s-hopes-zombie-keystone-xl-pipeline-revived-south-dakota-validates-expired-permit\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/pipes_0.jpg?itok=lb_YdZbQ\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"horizontal-social-bar horizontal-social-bar-top clearfix\">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.puc.sd.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">South Dakota Public Utility Commission (<span class=\"caps\">PUC<\/span>)<\/a>\u00a0voted unanimously to keep TransCanada\u2019s hopes for the Keystone\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XL<\/span>pipeline alive by validating its permit certification that expired in\u00a02014.<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Chris Nelson, the chair of the commission, concluded TransCanada could still meet all the conditions of its expired permit. The fact TransCanada was denied a needed presidential permit to cross international borders was not a reason to deny certification because the next president could grant it, the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">PUC<\/span>\u00a0chair\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the\u00a0lawyers representing\u00a0the Intervenors \u2014 indigenous tribes, the grassroots group Dakota Rural Action, and individual landowners \u2014 did not make a case proving TransCanada was unable to meet any of the\u00a0conditions\u00a0required to build the pipeline, despite a nine-day hearing last summer at which Intervenors presented reams of\u00a0evidence and allegations to\u00a0the\u00a0contrary.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>I can\u2019t change that we have different world views,\u201d Nelson said to his \u201cNative American friends\u201d before the vote was taken. He thanked the \u201cnatives\u201d for explaining to him why they vehemently opposed the pipeline. His decision must be based on the law, not emotions, he told\u00a0them.<\/p>\n<p>After the decision was made, Joye Braun, a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Oyate broke out in a protest war cry. She deemed the Keystone\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XL<\/span>\u00a0a \u201czombie\u00a0pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">VIDEO<\/span>: Joye Braun protests the decision to renew TransCanada\u2019s Permit for the Keystone\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XL<\/span>\u00a0in South\u00a0Dakota.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video fb_iframe_widget fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop\" data-allowfullscreen=\"1\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joye.braun\/videos\/10154485973199057\/\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" title=\"fb:video Facebook Social Plugin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v2.3\/plugins\/video.php?allowfullscreen=true&amp;app_id=151497564934875&amp;channel=http%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D42%23cb%3Df21d354c2%26domain%3Dwww.desmogblog.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.desmogblog.com%252Ffe1cba928%26relation%3Dparent.parent&amp;container_width=826&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjoye.braun%2Fvideos%2F10154485973199057%2F&amp;locale=en_US&amp;sdk=joey\" name=\"f2ea709758\" width=\"1000px\" height=\"1000px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The hearings that the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">PUC<\/span>\u00a0based its\u00a0decision\u00a0on were marred with questionable actions from the\u00a0start.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/07\/28\/evidence-released-transcanada-s-keystone-xl-permit-renewal-hearing-sheds-light-serious-pipeline-risks\" target=\"_blank\">Intervenors questioned the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">PUC<\/span>\u2019s impartiality<\/a>\u00a0before the hearing began. Many who wanted to testify against the permit renewal\u00a0were unable to do so because they failed to meet deadlines for filing pre-trial testimony. And much of the evidence those who did pre-file testimony wanted to cite was precluded from\u00a0the\u00a0proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking: TransCanada\u2019s Hopes For \u201cZombie\u201d Keystone XL Pipeline Revived As South Dakota Validates Expired Permit The\u00a0South Dakota Public Utility Commission (PUC)\u00a0voted unanimously to keep TransCanada\u2019s hopes for the Keystone\u00a0XLpipeline alive by validating its permit certification that expired in\u00a02014. Chris Nelson, the chair of the commission, concluded TransCanada could still meet all the conditions of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5317,11518,1030,590,7626,1350],"class_list":["post-16086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-desmog-blog","tag-julie-dermansky","tag-keystone-xl-pipeline","tag-oil-pipeline","tag-south-dakota","tag-transcanada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16087,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16086\/revisions\/16087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}