Report: No Major Environmental Impact from Keystone Pipeline

The U.S. State Department says it has no major environmental objections to the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada into U.S. territory, a project that has aroused controversy in the United States. The report released Friday does not clear the way for beginning construction of the Keystone pipeline, a $5 billion crude-oil supply line traveling 1,900 kilometers from Canada's Alberta province to the U.S. state of Nebraska. The Keystone link would complete a supply network...

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