{"id":141169,"date":"2011-11-12T05:23:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T11:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=141169"},"modified":"2011-11-13T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T23:27:32","slug":"u-s-pipeline-delay-could-send-canadian-crude-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=141169","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Pipeline Delay could Send Canadian Crude to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=141170\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-141170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/11\/Keystone-Pipeline-map22-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Keystone Pipeline map2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-141170\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBILLINGS, MONT. (AP) \u2014 The White House plan to seek alternate routes for a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline presents a tangle of new problems for the project, with the potential to sink it altogether. Shifting the route around a major aquifer could mean more perilous stream crossings and put the line closer to populated areas. Major changes also risk alienating pipeline supporters.  Some observers said Friday the dilemma could force TransCanada to bypass U.S. markets and ship fuel to China instead.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s proposed $7 billion Keystone XL line would ship up to 700,000 barrels of crude daily from Alberta&#8217;s tar sands to Texas refineries near the Gulf of Mexico. On the current proposed route, the pipeline would go through eastern Smith County. <\/p>\n<p>Following complaints from Nebraska&#8217;s governor and state lawmakers, federal officials plan to study new routes to avoid parts of the sprawling Ogallala aquifer which irrigates the High Plains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BILLINGS, MONT. (AP) \u2014 The White House plan to seek alternate routes for a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline presents a tangle of new problems for the project, with the potential to sink it altogether. Shifting the route around a major aquifer could mean more perilous stream crossings and put the line closer to populated areas. Major &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=141169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. Pipeline Delay could Send Canadian Crude to China<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 12:26:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141169"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141389,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141169\/revisions\/141389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}