{"id":133322,"date":"2017-11-20T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T21:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133322"},"modified":"2017-11-21T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:59:00","slug":"nebraska-commission-approves-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133322","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska PSC approves Keystone XL pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Keystone-pipeline-route.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-118478\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Keystone-pipeline-route-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Update\u2026<\/p>\n<p>LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) \u2014 A Nebraska commission has approved an alternative <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/keystone-xl-pipeline-faces-major-regulatory-hurdle-51268977\">Keystone XL route <\/a>through the state, removing the last regulatory hurdle to the $8 billion oil pipeline project.<\/p>\n<p>The Nebraska Public Service Commission voted on the long-delayed project Monday, though the decision could still be challenged in court. The commission was forbidden by law from considering a recent oil spill on the existing Keystone pipeline in its decision.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative route would run farther north than the originally proposed route.<\/p>\n<p>TransCanada Corp.\u2019s plan to build a nearly 1,200-mile (1,931-kilometer) pipeline faces intense opposition from environmental groups, Native American tribes and some landowners.<\/p>\n<p>Business groups and some unions support the project as a way to create jobs. President Donald Trump issued a federal permit allowing for the project in March, reversing President Barack Obama administration\u2019s rejection of it.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department is looking into whether Nebraska&#8217;s approval of a modified route for the Keystone XL pipeline will affect the federal permit that pipeline developer TransCanada received in March.<\/p>\n<p>A State Department spokeswoman said Monday that the agency was aware of the Nebraska Public Service Commission&#8217;s decision and was trying to get more information about it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update\u2026 LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) \u2014 A Nebraska commission has approved an alternative Keystone XL route through the state, removing the last regulatory hurdle to the $8 billion oil pipeline project. The Nebraska Public Service Commission voted on the long-delayed project Monday, though the decision could still be challenged in court. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133322"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133368,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133322\/revisions\/133368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}