New Keystone XL Route Could Still Threaten Ogallala Aquifer Map used to define Nebraska Sandhills doesn't include nearby areas also vulnerable to contamination, InsideClimate News has learned. By ...

Approximately 80 percent of the Ogallala Aquifer lies to the west of the proposed alignment, “uphill” of the pipeline’s route. Spilled oil could not move upward against gravity. 2.

BEYOND THE PIPELINE /// Water-pumping Windmills tap into the giant Ogallala Aquifer 50 feet below the surface in Nebraska, where a leading expert says the State Department is "supposed to protect ...

The Canadian company TransCanada wants to build a 1,702-mile pipeline that will pass through Nebraska’s Ogallala aquifer as it transports heavy crude oil from tar sands mines in Alberta, Canada ...

ver the past forty years, it has been my good fortune to focus my research on Nebraska’s Sand Hills and the Ogallala Aquifer. Thanks to the Conservation and Survey Division of the University of ...

The draft environmental impact statement is out, and Atkinson banker Dan Kramer has been thumbing through it to try to understand how an underground petroleum pipeline can be built through ...

It’s simple. All pipelines leak. When the XL pipeline leaks, it will poison the Ogallala Aquifer. Aquifers cannot be cleaned up. Thirty percent of our irrigation water comes from this aquifer.

This is in response to the Mini Editorial and a Letter to the Editor in the March 12 Journal, both supporting the Keystone pipeline. The Ogallala aquifer that the pipeline would intersect is a ...

Ogallala Aquifer, Keystone pipeline, transgender bathroom, public health With more than a dozen previous water studies sitting on the shelf gathering dust, do we need another study to tell us what ...

The Canadian company TransCanada wants to build a 1,702-mile pipeline that will pass through Nebraska's Ogallala aquifer as it transports heavy crude oil from tar sands mines in Alberta, Canada to ...

In the debate over TransCanada's controversial Cananda-to-Texas oil pipe, the Ogallala aquifer and the Nebraska sandhills have emerged as flashpoints ...