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Lower Platte NRD split on coal slurry pipeline stance
The Lower Platte South NRD board voted 12 to 1 with two abstentions to take no position on ETSI’s 1036 mile coal slurry pipeline from Gillette Wyoming to White Bluff Arkansas. Proponents included former Gov Robert Crosby. opponents cited Nebraska Railroad Association head Philip Kenny. The group urged a statewide stance mirroring that impartial position. The board also backed water use safeguards and a transfer-priorities framework, and approved $800 toward a $1600 aerial survey of Lancaster County land-use changes since 1971.
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Lower Platte South
Nebraska Association of Resource Districts
David Landis
Paul Amen
Lincoln
Robert Crosby
NRC
Energy
Landis
Amen
NRD
Lancaster County
US Agriculture Dept