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标题：Keystone XL's decade-long slog toward reality just got longer
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作者：kevin orland ; rachel adams-heard
期刊名称：World Oil Magazine
出版年度：2018
期号：11
出版社：Gulf Publishing Co.
摘要：CALGARY (Bloomberg) -- TransCanada Corp.’s $8 billion Keystone XL pipeline may face another eight months of delay after a court ruling raised issues with a 4-year-old environmental review. A Montana federal judge, Thursday, found that the 2014 environmental assessment by the Obama administration fell short. President Donald Trump used that review in a March 2017 decision allowing the project to proceed. Now, the U.S. must consider oil prices, greenhouse-gas emissions and formulate a new spill-response strategy before allowing the pipeline to move forward, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris wrote in a ruling. TransCanada first proposed the 1,179-mi (1,897-km) pipeline expansion in 2008. Designed to haul crude from Canada’s oil sands to refiners on the U.S. Gulf Coast, Keystone XL became a focal point for environmental opposition to fossil fuels. The conduit would help alleviate bottlenecks that have driven oil prices in Western Canada to as much as $50/bbl below the U.S. benchmark. On Friday, TransCanada said it’s reviewing the ruling and that it remains “committed to building this important energy infrastructure project.”