{"id":1626,"date":"2016-01-07T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:30:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:30:51","slug":"transcanada-sues-u-s-and-files-nafta-claim-for-kxl-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/07\/transcanada-sues-u-s-and-files-nafta-claim-for-kxl-rejection\/","title":{"rendered":"TransCanada sues U.S. and files NAFTA claim for KXL rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalstar.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Journal Star<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TransCanada has filed a lawsuit and a $15 billion NAFTA claim seeking to recover costs and damages in response to President Barack Obama\u2019s rejection of a permit for its Keystone XL pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Houston and says Obama\u2019s November decision to deny a cross-border permit for the $8 billion pipeline violated his power under the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary, Alberta-based company spent $3.1 billion trying to bring the project to fruition. The $15 billion figure takes into account what it says is the lost value of its investments and its lost economic return.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journalstar.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/federal-politics\/transcanada-files-lawsuit-and-billion-nafta-claim-over-keystone-xl\/article_db61b1a8-09b8-5cbf-a482-5dc0d5f8fb9b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Lincoln Journal Star: TransCanada has filed a lawsuit and a $15 billion NAFTA claim seeking to recover costs and damages in response to President Barack Obama\u2019s rejection of a permit for its Keystone XL pipeline. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Houston and says Obama\u2019s November decision to deny a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/07\/transcanada-sues-u-s-and-files-nafta-claim-for-kxl-rejection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TransCanada sues U.S. and files NAFTA claim for KXL rejection<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[13,12,10,8,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}