{"id":7421,"date":"2013-01-23T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:18:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:18:04","slug":"nebraska-approves-new-keystone-xl-pipeline-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2013\/01\/23\/nebraska-approves-new-keystone-xl-pipeline-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska Approves New Keystone XL Pipeline Route"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sandhill<\/a><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Nebraska Governor Heineman approved the new Keystone XL Pipeline route<\/a> that avoids the Nebraska Sandhills.<\/p>\n

The recent evaluation by the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality<\/a> indicated that the environmental impacts of a pipeline rupture would be minimal.\u00a0 According to the report, any contamination of the Ogallala Aquifer<\/a> would remain local.\u00a0 Nebraskan farmers and ranchers, along with environmental activists, dispute the findings and asked for a more detailed evaluation by a third party before any decisions were made.<\/p>\n

According to the governor, TransCanada has agreed to carry $200 million in insurance to cover the costs of any spill in Nebraska occurring because of the Keystone XL pipeline.\u00a0 In addition, TransCanada has agreed to fifty-seven special conditions that should make the pipeline safer than ordinary pipelines.<\/p>\n

Sandhill cranes in Nebraska’s Platte River<\/a> photo via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, Nebraska Governor Heineman approved the new Keystone XL Pipeline route that avoids the Nebraska Sandhills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":7422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[10,16,23],"tags":[2854,1173,1453,1562,1567,1670,2205],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Sandhill-Cranes-on-the-Platte-River-in-Nebraska.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}