Keystone XL pipeline company sees no delay from court-ordered study, moves to condemn S.D. land

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Paul Hammel

LINCOLN — A spokesman for the company seeking to construct the Keystone XL pipeline said Monday that a recent federal judge’s ruling should not delay the project, but a leading opponent said she remains confident that the $8 billion project will never be built.

Matthew John, a spokesman for Calgary-based TransCanada, said Monday that the company does not anticipate that the ruling last week will have an impact on current construction preparation activities.

TransCanada, according to court documents, plans to begin construction in the second quarter of 2019.

In his ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris ordered federal officials to conduct a supplemental environmental review of the “mainline alternative route” that was approved by the Nebraska Public Service Commission across Nebraska last year. The detoured route, which crosses five new counties in northeast Nebraska, was not a part of the Keystone XL federal environmental impact study done in 2014.

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