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| Big Muddy rancher wrote: |
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| I don't have no dog in this fight either...But I'm for it if they don't go through say like highway two and south from Dunning west to Alliance. And the reason why is because of wind erosion(sp) That's pretty fragile country.. |
Your right Katrina about the erosion. I have toured the Trans Canada pipeline through the Great Sandhills in Saskatchewan. I think there is 4 lines running parallel put in over the years. They were fenced out and had crossings to let cattle get across for water. That was a mistake as it funneled the cattle into narrow channels a the sand eroded badly. Since then they have worked with producers and developed water ie pipelines to distribute the cattle.
They have learned alot since they put in the first line 50 years ago. |
Northern Border gas pipeline goes thru just north of my place...Put in in the early 80's....And even in some of our blowsand country- if you did not know the exact route or saw the signs they put up every once in awhile marking the pipeline- you would not be able to tell that its there....
In reclaiming the land Northern Border seeded the land back to its original state to where you wouldn't even know its there on the prairie- and on the farmland the farmers just farm over it like it isn't there either....
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Mike
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers will try to force the Obama administration to approve the Canada-to-Texas Keystone XL pipeline by attaching it to a highway bill that Congress will consider next month, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Sunday.
President Barack Obama earlier this month denied TransCanada's application for the oil sands pipeline, citing lack of time to review an alternative route within a 60-day window for action set by Congress.
Republicans have since been looking for a vehicle to resurrect the $7 billion project, and Boehner said that would be a House Republican energy and highway bill.
"If (Keystone) is not enacted before we take up the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, it will be part of it," Boehner said on ABC's "This Week" news program.
Environmentalists and some Democrats oppose Keystone, citing higher greenhouse gas emissions, while most Republicans say it would create needed jobs.
Republicans in the Senate also plan to introduce a Keystone bill. Some Senate Democrats back the pipeline, but its passage is not guaranteed in the body.
Parts of the House Republican plan, such as opening up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration, stand little chance of passing the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate.
Attaching Keystone to a pending deal to extend payroll tax cuts for workers, which has greater bipartisan backing than the highway bills, is another vehicle Republicans are considering.
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