Judge lifts halt on Texas Keystone leg

Green light: TransCanada can go ahead with Texas Keystone leg after temporary halt

A Texas judge on Thursday lifted a temporary restraining order filed by a landowner that had halted some of TransCanada's work on a pipeline to carry heavy crude from Oklahoma to Texas refineries.

Texas County Court at Law Judge Jack Sinz in Nacogdoches County ordered TransCanada last week to stop building a pipeline, the southern-most section of the contentious Keystone XL project, across the property of Michael Bishop in east Texas, about 150 miles (241 kilometres) north-east of Houston.

In the order, which took effect on Tuesday, Sinz said there was "sufficient cause" to halt work on Bishop's 20-acre property until a planned 19 December hearing. At Thursday's hearing, Sinz lifted that restraining order, Reuters reported.

Bishop has claimed that TransCanada is in violation…

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