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Nebraska high court tosses suit over Keystone pipeline route
2015-01-09 17:14:08| Energy - Topix.net
Nebraska's highest court tossed a lawsuit Friday challenging a proposed route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline in a decision that could remove a major roadblock for the $7 billion cross-continental project, which Republicans have vowed to make a key part of their 2015 agenda in Congress. The lawsuit challenged a 2012 state law that allowed the governor to empower Calgary-based TransCanada to force eastern Nebraska landowners to sell their property for the project.
Nebraska high court tosses suit over Keystone pipeline route
2015-01-09 16:34:59| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Nebraska's highest court tossed a lawsuit Friday challenging a proposed route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, saying the landowners who sued didn't have legal standing to do so. The closely watched Nebraska Supreme Court decision could remove a major roadblock for the $7 billion cross-continental project that Republicans have vowed to make a key part of their 2015 agenda in Congress.
Nebraska Supreme Court Clears Way For Keystone XL Pipeline
2015-01-09 15:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Nebraska's Supreme Court, in a split decision, cleared the the way for the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline's route. Four of the seven judges ruled that landowners who challenged the state law giving Nebraska's governor authority to approve the pipeline's route have standing to challenge the constitutionality of the law. The same judges also found that a lower court correctly ruled the state law as unconstitutional. But Nebraska's Constitution requires a supermajority of five to strike down...
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Nebraska court approves route of controversial Keystone XL pipeline
2015-01-09 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Nebraska court has signed off on the proposed route for the Keystone XL, bringing the controversial project a crucial step closer to reality after six years of legal and political fighting. The Nebraska supreme court said the states governor, Dave Heineman, had indeed acted within his authority in January 2013 when he approved the pipelines route. A lower court had ruled that Heineman should have consulted Nebraskas public service commission, an obscure body which regulates grain bins,...
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Nebraska Keystone pipeline lawsuit thrown out
2015-01-09 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Nebraska's highest court threw out a challenge Friday to a proposed route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, even though a majority of judges agreed the landowners who sued should have won their case. The decision removes a major roadblock for the $7 billion cross-continental project Republicans have vowed to make a key part of their 2015 agenda in Congress. Four judges on the seven-member Nebraska Supreme Court said the landowners should have won their challenge to the 2012 state law that allowed...
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