A new round in the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline has begun, as TransCanada reapplied for a U.S. permit to build the controversial $7.6-billion, 1,600-mile-long project, which would carry crude oil from Alberta's tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Calgary-based energy company's application, received by the State Dept. on May 4, is different from its initial submission, which President Obama rejected in January. For one thing, the new application only applies to the 1,179-mi. section from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska.