Trans Canada: Easement Requests and Army Corps

trans canada: Keystone, a project designed to ship Canadian crude to the United States, was halted in late 2015 by former president Barack Obama over environmental concerns, but Trump has invited Trans Canada, the pipeline's proponent, to resubmit its application to the State Department, according to Guelph Mercury. He also ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to review and approve construction and easement requests for Dakota Access a pipeline that ignited pushback among indigenous people throughout North America. The new president signed executive orders Tuesday on two highly contentious pipelines the cross-border Keystone XL and the Dakota Access line, a project which triggered months of protests in North Dakota last year. Last December, Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant army secretary for civil works, declined to allow the pipeline to be built under Lake Oahe and said alternate routes need to be considered. Dakota Access could threaten the neighbouring Standing Rock Sioux's drinking water supply, Bellegarde said Wednesday, noting his organization supported efforts last year to identify alternate routes for the line and provided support for the protests. The 3.8 billion project would bring North Dakota crude through South Dakota and Iowa to an existing pipeline in Illinois. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.