TransCanada's rejection

The State Department announced on Wednesday that the U.S. government has rejected TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline.

According to CBC, the Department said in a statement that they are willing to accept an application with a different route.TransCanada has said that they will apply with a new route based on the research they have compiled these past three years. 

The original proposal would have run from Alberta all the way to Texas. This would have caused a problem in Nebraska, where it would have cut through an area that supplies drinking water. The proposal was then changed in November of last year. US officials said they would only make a decision at the end of the year, after the next presidential election.

In the meantime, TransCanada is working to build a route around an ecologically sensitive area in Nebraska. That process will most likely finish in September or October of this year.