{"id":4316,"date":"2015-01-10T08:08:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2015-01-10T08:08:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:08:35","slug":"keystone-pipelines-nebraska-path-cleared-congress-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4316","title":{"rendered":"Keystone Pipeline\u2019s Nebraska Path Cleared; Congress Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keystone Pipeline\u2019s Nebraska Path Cleared; Congress Votes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

TransCanada Corp.<\/a>\u2019s Keystone XL pipeline faces one less hurdle after Nebraska\u2019s highest court cleared its path through the state, sending the matter back to Washington.<\/p>\n

The pipeline would funnel crude from Alberta\u2019s oil sands to a network junction in southeast Nebraska, for transport to Gulf Coast refineries. While the ruling is a victory for energy independence proponents, the project\u2019s fate remains uncertain.<\/p>\n

It now returns to President\u00a0Barack Obama<\/a>, who had put off a decision citing the pending lawsuit. Today, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would force approval of the pipeline.<\/p>\n

While four of the seven Nebraska Supreme Court judges held that they would block Keystone XL, five were needed to declare unconstitutional a law that allowed the governor to dictate its path. As a result, the route survived by default.<\/p>\n

Justice William Connolly, writing for the judges who wanted to block the project, criticized dissenters for refusing to address its legality. Those three judges argued the property owners who challenged the pipeline don\u2019t have the right to sue.<\/p>\n

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Keystone Pipeline\u2019s Nebraska Path Cleared; Congress Votes TransCanada Corp.\u2019s Keystone XL pipeline faces one less hurdle after Nebraska\u2019s highest court cleared its path through the state, sending the matter back to Washington. The pipeline would funnel crude from Alberta\u2019s oil sands to a network junction in southeast Nebraska, for transport to Gulf Coast refineries. While […]<\/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":[2536,1238,103,1030,1113],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-alberta-oil-sands","tag-barak-obama","tag-canada","tag-keystone-xl-pipeline","tag-nebraska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","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=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}