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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Energy => Topic started by: EC on June 27, 2016, 09:43:12 am
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TransCanada, the company behind the disputed Keystone XL pipeline project, has filed a formal request to sue the US government for damages.
The pipeline, which was designed to carry oil from Canada to refineries in the US, was rejected by US President Barack Obama last November.
It would have allowed for an increase in the supply of oil from the oil sands in Alberta in Canada.
But President Obama said it was not in the "national interests" of the US.
The pipeline's construction has been hotly disputed for more than seven years, with environmentalists saying it would do irreparable damage.
The Canadian National Energy Board approved the Keystone XL pipeline in March 2010, but because it would have run across the US/Canada border, the project required a presidential permit before construction.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36634290
This might be better in the Energy board. Don't know.
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Moved this to the energy board, since ranger has posted an alternate story in national news (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,213707.0.html). I'm thinking this thread more for the tech/business side, the one in news more for the general public/political side.
Have at it, good sirs!