TransCanadasays it plans to move ahead with its Keystone XL Pipeline project, despite setbacks in recent months.

这家总部位于卡尔加里的公司在2月27日给州立部的一封信中表示，它计划建造从俄克拉荷马州库欣市到墨西哥湾沿岸的石油上线部分，该海岸不需要总统许可即可开始。

公司官员表示，从库欣到墨西哥湾海岸的细分市场将花费约23亿美元，并在2013年中期至下旬开始使用。

Moreover, the company told the State Dept. that it plans to re-apply for a presidential—or cross-border—permit in the near future for the segment of the Keystone that runs from the U.S.-Canada border in Montana through Steele City, Neb. TransCanada says it will supplement the application with an alternative route in Nebraska once that route is selected.

TransCanadahas been working with the state of Nebraska to determine an alternative route for Keystone XL that avoids the Sandhills, after the State Dept. issued a notice to delay a decision on a presidential permit until an adjusted route that avoids the Sandhills was developed.

在一月，President Obama rejected TransCanada’s permit applicationto build the 1,600-mile pipeline to transport crude oil from Alberta to the Gulf Coast , saying that the State Dept. did not have enough time to perform an environmental review. Since then, some Republicans in Congress have tried to advance legislation that would enable the project to move forward.

白宫新闻秘书杰伊·卡尼（Jay Carney）在一份声明中说，总统“欢迎”这一消息，即TransCanada将继续进行管道。

Carney said: “As the President made clear in January, we support the company’s interest in proceeding with this project, which will help address the bottleneck of oil in Cushing that has resulted in large part from increased domestic oil production, currently at an eight year high. Moving oil from the Midwest to the world-class, state-of-the-art refineries on the Gulf Coast will modernize our infrastructure, create jobs, and encourage American energy production. We look forward to working with TransCanada to ensure that it is built in a safe, responsible and timely manner, and we commit to take every step possible to expedite the necessary Federal permits.”

但环保组织深感愤怒。迈克尔Brune, Sierra Club executive director, said in a statement: “TransCanada is hell-bent on bringing tar sands, the world’s dirtiest oil, through America to reach foreign markets. They can’t wait for a fair, scientific environmental review they know their pipeline would fail. So we see dirty political tricks, dirty PR tricks, and, now, this dirty trick to build the pipeline piecemeal.”