{"id":5398,"date":"2011-11-14T17:06:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T23:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2013-03-11T14:21:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:21:50","slug":"debate-begins-on-pipeline-bill-keystone-xl-route-will-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=5398","title":{"rendered":"Debate begins on pipeline bill; Keystone XL route will move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers began first-round debate Nov. 14 on a bill that would give the governor final authority to approve pipeline routes in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>LB4, introduced by Schuyler Sen. Chris Langemeier, would adopt the Oil Pipeline Route Certification Act.<\/p>\n<p>Among other provisions, LB4 would establish an application and certification process for oil pipeline routing in Nebraska. Under the bill, authority to issue a route certification for a proposed pipeline ultimately would rest with the governor.<\/p>\n<p>During debate, Sen. Mike Flood of Norfolk announced that TransCanada has agreed to reroute the Keystone XL pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have agreed to voluntarily move the route out of the Sandhills,\u201d Flood said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Flood said, the U.S. State Department confirmed that Nebraska has the ability to conduct a supplemental environmental impact study on any newly proposed route.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, he said, the Natural Resources Committee will be conducting a public hearing Nov. 15 at 1:30 p.m. on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nebraskalegislature.gov\/FloorDocs\/Current\/PDF\/AM\/AM37_S1.pdf\">amendment<\/a> to provide authority for such a study to be conducted by the state Department of Environmental Quality. He said the study likely would take six to nine months to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Flood said a siting bill and a regulatory framework for pipelines still are needed so that Nebraska has a voice in routing future pipelines. The amendment would provide a positive outcome for everyone involved in the process, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt respects our citizens, it moves the route and it defines state policy into the future,\u201d Flood said.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature adjourned without taking action on LB4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers began first-round debate Nov. 14 on a bill that would give the governor final authority to approve pipeline routes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,21],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-resources","category-special-session","tag-sen-chris-langemeier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5398"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10105,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5398\/revisions\/10105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}