{"id":1919,"date":"2017-06-07T07:40:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T12:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2017-06-07T07:40:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T12:40:48","slug":"nrdc-still-no-approved-route-for-kxl-in-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/07\/nrdc-still-no-approved-route-for-kxl-in-nebraska\/","title":{"rendered":"NRDC: Still No Approved Route for KXL in Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natural Resources Defense Council<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Trump has green-lighted the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. But Nebraska\u2019s got a slew of public hearings on the calendar, and legal challenges loom large.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump administration approves Keystone XL pipeline,\u201d the headlines blared. It was March 24, only two months after he\u2019d taken office, when it appeared that President Trump had cleared the way for the long-contested tar sands conduit with a stroke of his pen. In reality, summarily declaring that the pipeline is in the national interest\u2014despite a seven-year U.S. State Department review process that had concluded the opposite\u2014won\u2019t magically bring it to life. The president, together with TransCanada, the energy company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, still have many obstacles to overcome before Canadian tar sands crude can flow through KXL and into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The first formidable hurdle they face is the state of Nebraska, which TransCanada has treated with contempt in recent years. First, the company drew the pipeline\u2019s route through the heart of the state\u2019s fragile Sand Hills ecosystem. Confronted by environmental concerns, TransCanada said that rerouting the pipeline would be \u201cimpossible.\u201d Mounting resistance, however, forced the oil giant to relent and nudge the proposed route around some of the most sensitive parts of the Sand Hills. The pipeline would still, however, run through the important Ogallala aquifer\u2014one of our largest underground stores of freshwater, which would be at significant risk in the event of a leak.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the controversial tar sands pipeline has been reactivated by President Trump\u2019s decision, TransCanada must obtain the consent of the Nebraska Public Service Commission and secure easements from the landowners along the proposed route through the Cornhusker State. It will not be smooth sailing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/stories\/still-no-approved-route-kxl-nebraska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full policy primer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Natural Resources Defense Council: Yes, Trump has green-lighted the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. But Nebraska\u2019s got a slew of public hearings on the calendar, and legal challenges loom large. \u201cTrump administration approves Keystone XL pipeline,\u201d the headlines blared. It was March 24, only two months after he\u2019d taken office, when it appeared that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/07\/nrdc-still-no-approved-route-for-kxl-in-nebraska\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NRDC: Still No Approved Route for KXL in Nebraska<\/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":[13,12,10,17,8,16,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919"}],"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=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}