State Department Says Keystone XL Won't Cause Environmental Problems During Construction or Operations

Update

August 31, 2011: apparently the Nebraska governor does feel the pipeline has a potential environmental impact. This pipeline will never be completed.  He's the type of person who can be both for something and against something. He should go far in politics:

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to deny a federal permit for an oil pipeline that would carry Canadian oil over an aquifer that supplies drinking and irrigation water to parts of several states.

Heineman said he does not oppose TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline project, but does not support a proposed route that crosses the Ogallala aquifer.

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The report issued Friday is the third on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry crude oil extracted from tar sands in western Canada to refineries in Texas. The pipeline would travel through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.

Another link here. 

The US Department of State issued a final environmental impact statement of the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline. The finding that the project would have limited environmental impacts drew cheers from oil and gas and other business groups, and boos from environmental organizations.

DOS still needs to determine whether the proposed project—which would consist of an 861.5-mile segment from Morgan, Mont., to Steele City, Neb., and a 483.8-mile segment from Cushing, Okla., to refineries in Houston, and Port Arthur, Tex.—is in the national interest.

Well, duh.

I can't make this stuff  up.