US suit aims to block Clipper crude line

摘要

Houston-A coalition of US-based environmental groups filed a lawsuit in federal court September 3 against the State Department seeking to overturn a permit to build a pipeline to import Canadian crude.The lawsuit, which also names Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the US Army Corps of Engineers as defendants, takes aims at a permit granted earlier this month to Canada's Enbridge Energy for construction of the Alberta Clipper crude line into the US (ON 8/21).