TransCanada has announced it will end efforts to use eminent domain to secure the Keystone XL route through Nebraska…and, instead, will file an application with the Nebraska Public Service Commission.
It’s a change of strategy for TransCanada on Keystone XL. . .

Mark Cooper is a spokesman for TransCanada.
The decision ends a court challenge of the 2013 law used to chart a route for Keystone XL through Nebraska.

Cooper says the company concluded the shift would provide a quicker process to settle on the Keystone XL route. . .

With the action, TransCanada will withdraw eminent domain procedures against landowners who haven’t reached an agreement with the company on a pipeline easement.