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TexasTowelie

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Mon Feb 18, 2013, 07:21 AM Feb 2013

NPPD: Keystone pipeline power won’t be done in 2014

Source: AP

COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska utility said the new route for a proposed oil pipeline that would carry Canadian crude oil through the state will delay work on electric transmission lines for the pipeline.

Nebraska Public Power District officials said they won’t be able to build the transmission lines by the end-of-2014 deadline that TransCanada set.

NPPD Chief Operating Officer Tom Kent said there’s no way the transmission lines will be ready by 2015.
“We have a lot of work to do,” he said.

TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline will carry Canadian crude to the Gulf Coast if it can win President Barack Obama’s approval. The proposed $7 billion pipeline would cross Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. TransCanada also has proposed connecting the pipeline to the Bakken oil field in Montana and North Dakota.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20130218/NEWS/130219549/1707

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NPPD: Keystone pipeline power won’t be done in 2014 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2013 OP
They may force Nebraska homeowners to pay for the transmission lines for the oil company Kolesar Feb 2013 #1
Tar sands They_Live Feb 2013 #2

Kolesar

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1. They may force Nebraska homeowners to pay for the transmission lines for the oil company
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 07:39 AM
Feb 2013

I don't know, though.

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