Political Hotsheet
Feb 27, 7:45PM
By Megan Towey / 9 comments

Texas landowner plans to fight new pipeline

This Sept. 19, 2011 aerial photo shows a tar sands tailings pond at a mine facility near Fort McMurray, in Alberta, Canada. The Keystone XL pipeline was designed to carry oil underground from these oil fields to the Texas Gulf Coast.

/ (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jeff McIntosh)
Construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, initially rejected in January by President Barack Obama on the grounds that more environmental review was needed, will now move forward. At least, in part.

On Monday, TransCanada Corp announced plans to begin building a portion of the contentious pipeline from the oil storage hub of Cushing, Oklahoma, to refineries on Texas' Gulf Coast. The Canadian pipeline company says it hopes to launch construction on the $2.3 billion southern leg by the beginning of the 2nd quarter and anticipates completion by mid-to-late 2013.

It was an announcement Julia Trigg Crawford has been dreading for months.

"Today is not a good day," Crawford told CBS News over the phone Monday afternoon.

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