Construction to begin in 2019 and completed in two years.
My own observation is that a pipeline lies much softer on the landscape than a wind farm. Politics are the only factor that sways the preference for the latter rather than the former. Bring on the pipeline and let the antelope play and the birds sing with fewer swing blade monsters on the prairie.
In March 2017, the U.S. Department of State issued a U.S. Presidential Permit authorizing construction of the U.S./Canada border crossing facilities of the Keystone XL project. We discontinued our claim under Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement and withdrew the U.S. Constitutional challenge. Later in March 2017, two lawsuits were filed in Montana District Court challenging the validity of the Presidential Permit. Along with the U.S. Government, we filed motions for dismissal of these law suits which were denied on November 22, 2017. The cases will now proceed to the consideration of summary judgment motions.
I am still bothered that such projects come down to the approval of a single individual.