From the Omaha World-Herald:
The company seeking to build the Keystone XL pipeline says it has no intention of walking away if the Nebraska Supreme Court deals the project a setback in coming weeks.
TransCanada Corp. has already prepared an application to the Nebraska Public Service Commission, said Corey Goulet, president of the Keystone project for the company. Whether the company submits it depends on how the Nebraska Supreme Court settles a constitutional dispute over a law used to route the pipeline, which would carry Canadian crude through the state and to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
A lower court judge struck down the 2012 law, saying the Legislature improperly gave the governor authority to approve the pipeline route. Lancaster County District Judge Stephanie Stacy ruled that regulatory power over pipelines rests with the five independently elected members of the Public Service Commission.