TransCanada denied request for some Keystone XL works

Bloomberg

TransCanada Corp. was partly denied a request to continue some pre-construction work on the Keystone XL oil pipeline while a dispute over the project’s environmental review wends
its way through the courts.
The company won’t be allowed to prepare sites for construction camps, but it will be allowed to prepare pipeline-storage and container yards and receive pipe at those sites, according to a ruling by US District Court Judge Brian Morris.
The $8 billion Keystone XL line — which already has been in the works for a decade amid environmental, indigenous and landowner opposition — hit another snag in November, when Morris ruled that the project’s 2014 environmental assessment was inadequate.
The Trump administration has appealed that ruling and TransCanada had sought to continue some preparatory work while the case is under consideration.
Morris’s decision on the preparatory work follows an earlier ruling where he blocked primary construction of the conduit pending further environmental review. Environmental preservation groups filed the Great Falls, Montana, lawsuit in 2017.