Federal agency adds 90 days to Keystone XL process
Story By: The Associated Press. Copyright 2010
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Federal officials have delayed a decision on a permit for a $7 billion oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
The State Department said Monday it's adding 90 days to the comment period for other federal agencies on whether TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline is in the national interest.
Keystone XL would move oil from Canada through Montana, along the border of North Dakota and South Dakota to Nebraska. The pipeline would then hook up with another pipeline in Kansas and move oil through Oklahoma and Texas.
The comment period had been scheduled to end Sept. 15. It will now extend until 90 days after the State Department has issued an environmental impact statement on the pipeline.
The department didn't say when the environmental statement would be finished.
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