By Fred Upton
Detroit Free Press guest writer

This week, I began negotiations with House and Senate colleagues on a transportation package to support jobs and infrastructure, and the good news is, there's an infrastructure project with shovel-ready jobs that we can include in this legislation, and it won't cost taxpayers a dime: the Keystone XL pipeline, which will carry Canadian energy supplies to American refineries.

The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) has scheduled four public information sessions on the new Nebraska pipeline route starting Thursday, May 9th and continuing through next week (see dates and locations below). More information can be found here https://ecmp.nebraska.gov/deq-seis/.

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The undersigned organizations strongly urge you to include language approving the Keystone XL pipeline in the final transportation bill conference report.

THE CASE FOR ultimately approving the Keystone XL pipeline — always strong — has grown stronger.

A key environmentalist argument against Keystone XL has been that the project would encourage the extraction of bitumen, a particularly dirty oil-like substance, from the “oil sands” in Alberta. If activists could “shut in” Canadian bitumen, limiting the ability of oil companies to sell the product, they argued, perhaps petroleum firms wouldn’t be able to fully develop the oil sands.