TransCanada pipeline threatened by Nebraska re-routing plan

HOUSTON — TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline may be threatened by legislation in Nebraska that would re-route the $7 billion project designed to bring Canadian crude to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

At a special session on Nov. 1, Nebraskan lawmakers will consider a bill aimed at forcing Calgary-based TransCanada to move the pipeline to the state's eastern edge, a step that company officials said may put the project in jeopardy.

The other five states the pipeline would traverse — Montana, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas — have either approved the route or have leaders who have exp...