20 Mar 2014
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Nebraska Landowners Await Keystone Pipeline
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Truth be told, Weber wishes the pipeline would have passed him by completely. Planting corn and soybeans around it is not an impossibility, but it will prove challenging. Instead, what gets under Weber’s skin most of all is the barrage of project delays, one after another.
"It's ridiculous that we haven't yet built this thing," says
Weber. "It would have been nice if they had gone a mile over and missed
me, but these kinds of things happen. It has to go through somewhere."
Weber is not alone. The proposed
1100-mile trek through Nebraska for the
pipeline has met with plenty of opposition.
It’s been ten years since the initial proposal, and landowners like
Weber are still waiting. Secretary of
State John Kerry is expected to finally decide on the matter in the coming
months.
The pipeline is coming
Despite opposition from environmental groups, afraid the pipeline will
have a negative impact on the environment above and below ground, it seems to
most that the pipeline is now a foregone conclusion. While some are worried about greenhouse
gases, others point to possible harm that may come to the drinking water there.
Now with the opposition all but having eroded, most landowners are ready
to just get the job done and move on. In
fact, the holdout by many may now turn into a boon. It seems that after the deal made by
TransCanada, builders of the pipeline, finally residence of Nebraska are going to
get their turn at cashing in on the oil boom.
While residents in Texas and North
Dakota have become millionaires overnight from the
shale boom, it seems the same has not been true for the people of Nebraska . Now, if the pipeline is inevitable, as it
seems to be, landowners in Nebraska may as well
be compensated. 34 Nebraska lawmakers,
more than a 2/3 majority, recently signed a letter in support of federal
approval. Only three lawmakers signed a
similar letter opposing the project.
Jane Kleeb, director of the anti-pipeline group Bold Nebraska, says that
while opposition is fading, it has not faded altogether. 115 out of 515 landowners along the proposed
route still are opposed to the pipeline.
But TransCanada has been very aggressive in its campaign to bring
landowners to its side. "For the
last three months, it's been very stressful on the landowners," says
Kleeb.
Coming
to an end
Other
landowners along the route are just ready for the whole thing to come to an
end.
"Up here
where the pipeline's going through, the people I've talked to don't have
concerns with it," says Frankie Maughan Jr. "They just want the money."
Other states signed off on the pipeline years ago. The pipeline would carry 830 mbopd from the
oil sands of Western Canada along with
100 mbopd from the Bakken formation in North
Dakota and Montana . Estimates show that as many as 40,000 new
jobs could be created from building the pipeline.
85-year-old Joseph Grosserode says TransCanada has offered him $100,000
for his easement, even promising he could keep the money even if the project is
never completed. Other landowners have
received as much as $250,000 with signing bonuses of up to $80,000.
"I think a lot of people who have signed so far, especially in the
beginning, didn't know a lot about the pipeline," says Jim Carlson, a
fellow Nebraska farmer.
"Initially, I thought it would be good for the country, that it would
reduce our independence on foreign oil. But now? They could offer me $344,000
today, and I wouldn't sign it."
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