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Court orders DOS to conduct supplemental EIS for Keystone XL project

Oil & Gas Journal: A federal court judge has ordered the US Department of State to conduct a supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline to consider the Mainline Alternative route that Nebraska’s Public Service Commission approved. But Judge Brian Morris, of US District Court for Montana’s Great Falls Division, did not vacate the presidential border-crossing permit that the project has received in his Aug. 15 decision.

Morris said the new route differs from the one analyzed in the original EIS in several respects, including crossing five different counties and different water bodies in Nebraska, being longer than the original route, and requiring an additional pump station and associated power lines.

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