{"id":160351,"date":"2012-01-29T04:14:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T10:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=160351"},"modified":"2012-01-30T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T18:54:19","slug":"small-towns-opposed-keystone-pipeline-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=160351","title":{"rendered":"Small Towns Opposed Keystone Pipeline Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=160525\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-160525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/01\/Keystone-Pipeline-map2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Keystone Pipeline map2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-160525\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS \u2014 News reports that pipeline builder TransCanada is exploring options toward laying the Texas leg of the 1,600-mile conduit for Canadian oil didn\u2019t surprise the mayor of a small East Texas town fighting the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas has already signed off on this thing,\u201d Reklaw Mayor Harlan Crawford said Saturday, the day after Trans-Canada announced it was considering building the line from Cushing, Okla., to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford\u2019s assessment that the Texas leg remains possible matched that of Keystone XL Project Representative Jim Prescott. The TransCanada spokesman said Friday the company has all necessary Texas permits for the pipeline, which would move a thick crude oil form known as oil sands, or tar sands. The proposed line cuts through northeast Wood, southwest Upshur, east Smith and southwest Rusk counties. Crawford\u2019s town of 266 is in the Rusk County corridor. According to the Longview News-Journal, Reklaw has banded with neighboring Gallatin, population 374, to form a regional planning commission under Texas\u2019 Local Government Code. President Barrack Obama put the international portion of the project on ice pending an environmental study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS \u2014 News reports that pipeline builder TransCanada is exploring options toward laying the Texas leg of the 1,600-mile conduit for Canadian oil didn\u2019t surprise the mayor of a small East Texas town fighting the project. \u201cTexas has already signed off on this thing,\u201d Reklaw Mayor Harlan Crawford said Saturday, the day after Trans-Canada &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=160351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Small Towns Opposed Keystone Pipeline Plan<\/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-160351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 19:07:08","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\/160351","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=160351"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160653,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160351\/revisions\/160653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}