South Dakota PUC sets public hearings on Keystone XL oil pipeline

PIERRE, S.D. - The Public Utilities Commission will hold public hearings in April on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline that will run through western South Dakota.
TransCanada Keystone Pipeline has applied to the PUC for a permit to build the pipeline to carry syncrude oil from Canada to Texas.
The route through South Dakota would be 313 miles long and cross parts of Harding, Butte, Perkins, Meade, Pennington, Haakon, Jones, Lyman and Tripp counties.
Public input hearings are planned April 27 during the day in Winner and that evening in Philip, and on April 28 in Buffalo.