The Mysterious Route of the Keystone Pipeline

[The Straight Story]

While the Obama administration decides whether to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project, Americans have no way to find out exactly where more than a thousand miles of pipe would be laid.

That’s because neither the U.S. government nor the Canadian company pushing the pipeline will reveal the proposed route.

What is known is that the pipeline would travel about 1,700 miles while crossing six states: Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Thomas Bachand, creator of the Keystone Mapping Project, wanted to find a map of the proposed construction to show people on his website what areas might be impacted by the work. He tried the State Department and got nothing. He then tried TransCanada, the oil company that wants to ship tars sands oil through the pipeline. There, Bachand got “the runaround. Their excuse was that [releasing the information] was a national security risk, which is just a joke,” he told NPR in 2012.

The information blackout includes withholding which streams or rivers the pipeline would cross.

http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/the-mysterious-route-of-the-keystone-pipeline-130702?news=850451

[tularetom]

1. "The Most Transparent Administration In History" strikes again

[RC]

2. To say nothing about which aquifers, where it would be crossing and eventually leaking into.

National security my ass. It is kind of hard to hide construction of something like that.

[EdwardSmith74]

3. To hell with the wetlands and water ways. Unrestricted capitalism is all that matters.

I think some cogs were well greased in getting this thing even close to becoming a reality.

[Brickbat]

4. Somewhere where these ain't?

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[hughee99]

5. There's too much money to be made by insiders on land speculation to reveal the route. n/t