TransCanada's Keystone XL crude oil pipeline is facing a new hurdle, as a law allowing the construction of the project was overturned by the Lancaster County court (Nebraska, United States). The Keystone XL Pipeline is a proposed 1,897 km crude oil pipeline beginning in Hardisty, Alberta (Canada), and extending south to Steele City, Nebraska (United States). The 830,000 bbl/d project is fiercely opposed by environmentalist groups and by Nebraska ranchers who rejected its construction. A Nebraska law was passed in 2012 to allow the state governor to approve the pipeline route through Nebraska despite landowners' denial; the route was approved in January 2013, paving the way for a commissioning of the pipeline in 2015. Some of the landowners filed a lawsuit, claiming that this decision should have been made by the Public Service Commission, and received support from the court. The Nebraska commission will now have seven months to approve or deny a pipeline route application.
Source: Transcanada