The Department of State found no significant potential consequences of constructing the proposed TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline in a final environmental impact statement released Friday, according to the department’s website.
The proposed 875-mile pipeline would deliver up to 830,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and the U.S. Bakken Shale Formation to Nebraska, according to the executive summary.
The impact statement further examined the potential for oil releases, climate change, changing oil markets and rail transport.
If President Barack Obama grants the permit to TransCanada Corps, it would authorize the pipeline to cross the United States-Canadian border.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a release he is pleased with the study results and hopes Obama will take action after “five years of dysfunction and delay.”
Johnson added Obama could have avoided “irritating our closest neighbor,” helped lower energy prices and reduced dependence on oil from “dangerous places far away.”
