Bridging the Gap: TransCanada Submits The Presidential Permit Application For Keystone XL 2.0N

Episode 48 in which the President gets a do-over:

TransCanada has submitted a Presidential Permit application to the U.S. Department of State for the Keystone XL Pipeline from the U.S./Canada border in Montana to Steele City, Nebraska. TransCanada will supplement that application with an alternative route in Nebraska as soon as that route is selected. TransCanada expects to begin construction of Keystone XL in the first quarter of 2013, with completion slated for late 2014 or early 2015. Construction of the $2.3 bln Gulf Coast Project (Cushing, Oklahoma to Nederland, Texas) is expected to begin this summer, with an in-service date of mid to late 2013. -- Yahoo!InPlay.

Keystone XL 2.0S will be from Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Gulf Coast. The application noted above will carry the pipeline from the Canadian border to Steele City, Nebraska, which leaves a 300-mile gap to Cushing. If I am reading this correctly, that gap will be addressed in a "supplement" to that application. The gap will be known as the Keystone XL 2.0Gap, or the Keystone-Nebraska Compromise.


An Issue of Trust

Episode 47 here.