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 wont be able to build the transmission lines by the end-of-2014 deadline that TransCanada set.
NPPD Chief Operating Officer Tom Kent said theres no way the transmission lines will be ready by 2015.
We have a lot of work to do, he said.
TransCanadas proposed Keystone XL pipeline will carry Canadian crude to the Gulf Coast if it can win President Barack Obamas 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.
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