TransCanada Celebrates first leg of Keystone XL pipeline
Posted Jan 16, 2015 7:42 am.
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TransCanada is celebrating the one-year anniversary of opening the south leg of the Keystone XL pipeline in Beaumont, Texas Friday.
They are using the occasion to promote getting the north leg of the project approved, and they have a powerful ally.
Senior Texas Senator John Cornyn will be along for a tour of the south leg, and then hold a round table on what benefits came from the building of the now one-year old infrastructure.
TransCanada Spokesperson Shawn Howard says they are hoping the round table will help politicians of all stripes understand what’s at stake.
“It’s not just about TransCanada, there’s 9,000 trades people in the United States and another 2,000 in Canada that are waiting to build this project,” he said. “They have the skills; they want to build this modern safe, energy infrastructure.”
TransCanada first applied to the U.S. government to build the north leg of Keystone back in 2008.
It would carry crude from the Alberta oilsands to the U.S. Golf Coast.
