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Holt County Supervisors scrap road haul agreement

 

Terminated • A road haul agreement, between TC Energy and Holt County ended April 28, after supervisors voted in favor of ending the agreement.

An agreement outlining responsibilities for road upkeep during potential pipeline construction, signed by TC Energy and Holt County officials, is no longer in effect.

County supervisors voted to terminate the road haul agreement, April 28, during the board's regular meeting.

Holt County Attorney Brent Kelly said TC Energy lawyers, from MacGrath North, in Omaha, reached out regarding the agreement.

"To make sure their I's are dotted and T's are crossed, they want to go ahead and terminate those agreements," Kelly said. "Basically, (they're) saying they're not going to do anything for us and we're not going to do anything for them."

Kelly noted if the project is ever resurrected, "we'll start from scratch" with a new agreement.

The proposed pipeline was halted in January 2021, when President Joe Biden denied a permit on his first day in office.

TC Energy abandoned the project in June 2021.

According to Kelly, TransCanada didn't start work on any Holt County roads.

One potential roadblock to terminating the haul agreement was resolved recently, when a lawsuit against the county's board of adjustment ruling, to deny a pipeline application permit, was dismissed.

Holt County Board of Adjustment members announced that decision in November 2020.

Don Butterfield made a motion to authorize Doug Frahm as acting chairman, to sign the acknowledgment of termination with TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP and Holt County, on the road haul agreement, which was signed in April 2020.

Due to a conflict, Bill Tielke abstained from voting, while the remainder of the board voted in favor of the motion.

 

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