The Andrea Shea King Show - John Wohlstetter

The Obama administration’s decision last week to postpone action on an international permit for the pipeline — one of the nation’s key environmental battle fronts as the 2012 elections approach — until after 2012. Federal officials said they would explore alternative routes to the Sand Hills in Nebraska, the single most contentious location for the 1,700-mile-long pipeline. Today, a Canadian pipeline company agreed to move the controversial Keystone XL pipeline outside the Sand Hills region of Nebraska, where many feared it would threaten one of the nation’s most important agricultural aquifers.