Permitting for the pipeline resides with the Administration rather than exclusively with Congress, but only because it's an "international pipeline" giving the Dept of State some say in the matter.

Nebraska is only one of several states where the aquifer could be adversely affected, but their formal complaint probably deserves much credit for pausing the process long enough for some potentially sane participants to have their inputs. Unfortunately sanity in the process has been somewhat slow to make much of an appearance.

To their credit, at least some of the Canadian parties to the experiment have appeared willing to work with our Dept of State, although evidence for that continues to be somewhat obscured by the posturing of those on this side of the border. It's obvious that they want a pipe, and it would benefit them; but the "Party^** first and f**k the people" candidates here have made it rather difficult to know the details (although some of us probably do know enough of them?).

^** "Party" of course meaning "our big donors" ????

John