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November 15, 2011|By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times, Reporting from Seattle — The builders of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline agreed Monday to reroute it around Nebraska's ecologically fragile Sandhills in the hope the move would shorten any delay in the project, which has posed political complications for the Obama administration.
TransCanada Corp.'s agreement to skirt the porous, watery region atop the nation's most important agricultural aquifer was celebrated by Nebraska ranchers and conservationists who have battled the pipeline.
The administration, however, chose to ignore the reroute, citing that it would require formal studies that would delay the approval process into 2013. As you said, it will be interesting to hear what your other Senator says.