Pipeline tweaks don't tamp skepticism PDF Print

LINCOLN — The afternoon coffee crowd was buzzing at the Naper Cafe Wednesday afternoon with the news: a new route for the Keystone XL pipeline would pass nearby.

And at least one in the gathering of about 25 at the cafe in the northern Nebraska village of Naper didn't like it.

"I don't think anyone's going to like it very well," said Tommy Higgins, a 66-year-old rancher whose land was crossed by the old route and, he suspects, the new route.

On Wednesday, TransCanada Inc. announced changes to about 20 miles of the crude oil pipeline's route across Nebraska.

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