Nebraska's decision overrode the objections of environmental groups, Native American tribes and
landowners along the pipeline's prospective route.
Not exact matches
We're standing up to these tar sands
pipelines because they threaten families and
landowners along the route, and every American everywhere.
The commission's decision came just days after the existing Keystone
pipeline in South Dakota, a 7 - year - old
pipeline also owned by TransCanada, spilled an estimated 210,000 gallons, something that could give
landowners along the recently approved route in Nebraska pause in granting easements.
In the face of such broad support, the Sheriff's office, Suarez, and county attorney, Micheal P. Short, have decided to take the side of Energy Transfer, which has used eminent domain against local
landowners and which threatens sacred and traditional Native territories
along the
pipeline route.Energy Transfer's
pipeline would move approximatly 470,000 barrels oil per day with capacity to move 570,000 barrels daily from the Bakken fields of North Dakota to be exported out to the gulf.