[Ron C.]

This is such a leftist political football, but I've heard self proclaimed conservatives that are dead-set against this pipeline!

[Truth29]

I think this is just playing Obama’s game. This project will never be approved under an Obama Administration IMO.

[cripplecreek]

Yeah there are a few greentards who lurk at FR.

The reality is that the pipeline will face the exact same opposition no matter what route it takes. The farmers of the plains won’t want it because they want to sell ethanol and the greenies don’t want it because they hate humanity and capitalism.

[JimmyMc]

Sandhill and Nebraska.
Is that an oxymoron?

[mdittmar]

I haven't followed this much,so I have a question.

Why couldn't the pipeline just go from Canada to Washington State?

[maine-iac7]

But but but - the poor caribou and grizzly bears!

Oh wait. that was the awful alaska pipeline...the one the grizzes use for a highway - cause it's warm on their toes - and the momma caribous choose to have their calves under because of the warmth and green ribbons of grass - and the improved survial of their new-borns.

[Carry_Okie]

To have routed this pipeline across the Niobrara River was guaranteed to raise a storm, and routing a pipeline loaded with viscosity modifiers (surfactants?) over sand atop the Ogalalla Aquifer might not be an intelligent liability to assume. Somehow, I doubt that the pipeline company has sufficient assets to mitigate such a hazard in the event a major spill should occur (for example, due to terrorism). I don't know a lot about the region, but my guess is that Thunder Basin might have been a smarter route albeit more expensive because of the terrain.

Thackney, do you have a comment on that?

[Kakaze]

Hmmm, what if several states simply said we are building it, privately and state financed, we are building it?

[hinckley buzzard]

The fact is, The pipeline will not be an environmental threat regardless of where it is sited. The aquafer in question is 400 feet below the surface and overlain by an impermeable layer of calcifed clay soil(caliche). The issue is entirely political and so the Pipeline company is making a political response.

You can't fault them for that. they are there to pump oil and make a profit, not hurt their shareholders to make a statement.

PS: there is already a Keystone pipeline through Nebraska. It came on line over a year ago. This XL line is an expansion of an existing system.

[cookcounty]

Hey, whatever happened to the Alaska to CONUS Trans-Canada NG pipeline?

[familyop]

Rich NIMBYs of both political parties are using their influences to keep it from going through or near their properties. They should give it up. I’m very happy to say that property values will be going down for decades, and there’s nothing that those corrupt people can do about it. We Baby Boomers will be croaking in great numbers for the next 20 years or so.

Many anti-American regulations against productivity in rural areas need to be abolished and buried forever.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The EIS already evaluated FOURTEEN routes! These "sandhills" are a barren wasteland that only grows scrub good for open range grazing. They cover 1/4 of the state. And 20,000 miles of pipeline already criss-cross Nebraska. They should indeed reroute the pipeline -- send it straight west to ports on the Pacific.

[ForGod'sSake]

This "news" while not unexpected given the muzzie in the white hut, it STILL gives me a case of the RED A$$! I also note with an ongoing and uneasy sense of foreboding the choice of headline by FoxNews. What could POSSIBLY be "controversial" about ANOTHER pipeline routed through the apparent wasteland that is western Nebraska??? More and more lately it seems FoxNews is consistently parroting libtard talking points.

It does however raise an interesting point; that is, I assume envirotard issues trump union support. Or maybe pipeliners are the red-headed stepchildren of unions. Of course envirotard faux heartburn can be selectively applied to just about ANY capitalist endeavor. Thereby being an ace in the hole when nothing else can put roadblocks in front of the free market system. A$$HOLES!!!

[1010RD]

Look at the code word - environmentally sensitive - like somehow it is so fragile that it won’t ever recover. Have liberals ever heard of fire, ice, wind, or storms? How did nature get so far without us to protect it?

Haven’t pipelines been a net, net benefit to wildlife? We’ve become inured to the belief that every act mankind takes is fundamentally harmful to the environment.

If a worm encounters a balled up plastic bag how is that different then a chunk of granite? Nature adapts. Extinction is normal. The earth is very, very old. That’s the fundamental science behind it.

The attempt to preserve the world as it is, now that’s unnatural.