The company needs two other permits from the agency’s Tulsa, Oklahoma and Fort Worth, Texas district

The U.S. army Corps of Engineers has granted TransCanada Corp one of three permits it needs to build the $2.3-billion southern section of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project President Barack Obama had pledged to move forward quickly. Photograph by: Tom Pennington
The U.S. army Corps of Engineers has granted TransCanada Corp one of three permits it needs to build the $2.3 billion southern section of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project President Barack Obama had pledged to move forward quickly.
TransCanada, which seeks to build the overall project in stages after Obama rejected the contentious first incarnation, said the approval covers wetland and water crossings in the Galveston, san antonio texas hotels Texas, district.
The company needs two other permits from the agency's Tulsa, Oklahoma and Fort Worth, Texas districts for the project, which it has rebranded the Gulf Coast project. Tulsa is expected to decide on the permit on Thursday when a 45 day period of consideration draws to a close, said Lavonna Davis, an Army Corps public affairs san antonio texas hotels specialist.
The Fort Worth district has asked TransCanada for more information, so there is no estimate when the agency might decide on the permit, she said. "Their clock hasn't started ticking, not until they get the full package of information," Davis said.
The southern section would initially carry 700,000 barrels san antonio texas hotels a day of crude to Texas refineries from the glutted Cushing, Oklahoma, storage hub with the aims of helping to raise deeply discounted prices and providing the region more secure oil supplies. It could be expanded to 830,000 bpd.
In January, Obama nixed the initial $7.6 billion Keystone XL application to take Canadian oil sands-derived crude to the Gulf Coast, saying it needed more environmental review than could be completed before a tight deadline set by the U.S. Congress.
But in February, he said he welcomed TransCanada's separate initiative to build the southern section, saying it would create jobs and encourage American san antonio texas hotels energy production. san antonio texas hotels He pledged to fast-track approvals so the line could be in service by mid- to late 2013.
TransCanada has also re-applied to build the northern san antonio texas hotels part of the pipeline between the Canada-United States border san antonio texas hotels and Steel City, Nebraska, though like the first application it requires a more complex presidential permit process because it crosses the international boundary.
"The Army Corps has shown a wilful disregard for the concerns of residents whose health, land and livelihoods are at stake if Keystone XL is rubber-stamped, which is why we're urging Administrator Lisa Jackson to step in and call for a full environmental review," Kim Huynh, campaigner for the group, said in a statement.
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