TransCanada Threatens to Change Keystone XL Route to Avoid Permit Delays

The company behind Keystone XL ultimately could tweak its pipeline proposal in order to sidestep the requirement for a presidential border-crossing permit, according to communications with landowners residing along its proposed route.

TransCanada Corp. did not disclose how it might further shake up the $5.4 billion pipeline, which remains in limbo as the State Department begins the next phase in a years-long review, in the proposed easement agreement obtained by Greenwire from a Nebraskan landowner requesting anonymity.  But the company's desire to leave its options open is apparent in its letter.

TransCanada Threatens to Change Keystone XL Route to Avoid Permit Delays