From The Seattle Times BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Environmentalists asked a federal judge on Monday to cancel approvals issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, opening another front in the legal fight over a long-delayed energy project that President Donald Trump has tried to push through to completion. Attorneys for the
From Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a new permission for TransCanada Corp to build the long-delayed Keystone pipeline for imports of Canadian oil, replacing his previous permits in a fresh attempt to get around the blocking of the $8 billion project by a court in Montana. In granting the permission, Trump revoked a previous permit for the
From Reuters The U.S. State Department will conduct another environmental review of TransCanada Corp’s long-pending Keystone XL oil pipeline, a U.S. official said on Friday, a move that could lead to additional delays of the project. The so-called supplemental environmental impact statement was ordered by Judge Brian Morris of the U.S. District Court in Montana in his ruling on Nov.
Stricter environmental standards further show Keystone XL will not ‘significantly exacerbate’ climate change TransCanada (ticker: TRP) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.S. State Department asking them to include Canada’s stricter stance on greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters in its review of the Keystone XL pipeline. Recent climate policy announcements from both the federal government
