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A Canadian company said Monday it will build an oil pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas after President Barack Obama blocked the larger Keystone XL pipeline from Canada .Calgary-based TransCanada says the new project does not require presidential approval, since it does not cross a U.S. border. The shorter pipeline is expected to cost about $2.3 billion and be completed next year, the company said.The Obama administration had suggested development of an Oklahoma-to-Texas line to alleviate an oil glut at a Cushing, Okla., storage hub.Press secretary Jay Carney said Obama welcomed the announcement."Moving oil from the Midwest to the world-class, state-of-the-art refineries on the Gulf Coast will modernize our infrastructure, create jobs, and encourage American energy production," Carney said in a statement. "We look forward to working with TransCanada to ensure that it is built in a safe, responsible and timely manner, and we commit to take every step possible to expedite the necessary feder...
Gov. Dave Heineman, (R-Neb.), on efforts to get the Keystone XL Pipeline approved by the president.
The State Department on Friday raised no major objections to the Keystone XL oil pipeline and said other options to get the oil from Canada to U.S. Gulf Coast refine...
The company planning the disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline has proposed a new route through Nebraska that avoids the state's environmentally sensitive Sandhills regi...
With President Obama poised to decide whether to allow construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline -- based on a second, more environmentally-sensitive path -- critics ...
Will TransCanada oil project pass?
Red Arc Farm owner Julia Trigg Crawford on the reasons why many Texas landowners are opposing TransCanada ’s construction of the pipeline.
In announcing his decision to not grant permission for the Keystone pipeline extension, opponents of President Obama argue the president gave in to pressure from env...
House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticize...
Short of announcing it outright, President Obama could not have signaled in stronger terms than he did Wednesday how little he cares for the plight of the American p...
TransCanada CEO Russell Girling on the benefits of the Keystone XL Pipeline to the U.S.
Wendell Goler reports from Washington, D.C.
UN Ambassador Susan Rice, already under fire from Republicans, is now taking hits from the left over six-figure investments in the company behind a controversial oil...
For the first time since President Obama issued a controversial order halting its progress, the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline is once again on track for bureaucratic...
The Canadian company trying to build the disputed Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. submitted a new application for the project Friday after changing the route to avo...
TransCanada Corp. says the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline will be in service months later than expected and cost more than its current US$5.3 billion price-tag as...
OMAHA, Nebraska-- Three conservation groups are suing to halt preliminary work on a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from the tar sands of western Canada to Texas Gu...
The Environmental Protection Agency is raising new objections to a proposed pipeline that would carry oil from western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.In a letter to ...
American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers president Charlie Drevna on the new Keystone XL Pipeline proposal.
The national environmental fight over the oil sands in Canada has reached a flashpoint in a pipeline battle. TransCanada wants to build a 2,000-mile pipeline from th...