[Ost-news] S Dakota: Settlement reached in Keystone pipeline's first eminent domain trials

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Settlement reached in Keystone pipeline's first eminent domain trials

Associated Press - June 9, 2008 7:05 PM ET

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Some landowners in eastern South Dakota have reached a settlement with TransCanada Keystone for the company's use of eminent domain to build an oil pipeline.

Terms of the agreement were confidential.

The company, based in Calgary, Alberta, is building a more-than 2,000-mile pipeline designed to deliver 590,000 barrels of crude oil daily from Alberta to refineries in Oklahoma and Illinois. The pipeline will run through Nebraska.

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