{"id":15632,"date":"2012-07-27T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=15632"},"modified":"2012-07-27T11:40:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T16:40:32","slug":"keystone-xl-gets-final-permit-to-run-through-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/07\/27\/keystone-xl-gets-final-permit-to-run-through-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Keystone XL Gets Final Permit to Run Through Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Tom Pennington\/Getty Images<\/p>

Pipe is stacked at the southern site of the Keystone XL pipeline on March 22, 2012 in Cushing, Oklahoma.<\/p><\/div>\n

All that stands in the way of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline<\/a> at this point are a few landowners<\/a>. While the northern section of the pipeline from Canada to Oklahoma has hit some snags, the southern portion is now officially cleared to go ahead, according to the company.<\/p>\n

TransCanada, the company behind the controversial project that would bring heavy oil harvested from sand deposits in Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast,\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0today that it has received the final of three permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.<\/p>\n

“With the permit from the Fort Worth, Texas Army Corps district added to previously received permits from the Galveston, Texas and the Tulsa, Oklahoma districts, TransCanada is now in a position to start construction of the oil pipeline in the coming weeks,” the company said in a statement<\/a>. The southern leg of the pipeline got a big boost<\/a> in March when President Obama called for cutting “through the red tape” and making its construction a priority.<\/p>\n

But there are still a few private landowners who haven’t signed agreements with the company. And the Army Corps of Engineers is being sued by the Sierra Club for allegedly issuing a water permit for the pipeline improperly<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Photo by Terrence Henry\/StateImpact Texas<\/p>

Julia Trigg Crawford has several hundred acres of land in northeast Texas. And the Keystone XL pipeline may have to go through it.<\/p><\/div>\n

Julia Trigg Crawford is one of the landowners on the pipeline’s route who has refused to sign with TransCanada. Her farmland sits on a few hundred acres in northeast Texas along the Red River. TransCanada used eminent domain to condemn part of her land for the pipeline. Now the two are going to court next month.<\/p>\n

But TransCanada isn’t sitting idle. Crawford tells StateImpact Texas that she’s seen new survey stakes at her fence-line where the pipeline would begin to cross her land. “They’ve got a pipe coming into the county, they’re surveying, so yeah, they’re getting ready,” Crawford says.<\/p>\n

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