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Randy Thompson has been a Rancher nearly all his life his family land sits in the path of a future pipeline that would carry up to 1.3 million barrels of oil a day from Canada to Texas K come on Randy has some concerns they come into our state they dictate where they're going to put the pipeline they're going to dictate what they're going to pay the land owners well hey you know this is our state and why should we risk our water supply just so they can save some money you know taking the shortest route across our state the company TransCanada already has one pipeline running through the state the new pipeline would carry oil 2600 km to refineries on the US Gulf Coast crossing over the ogalala aquafer the main source of water for America's agricultural Heartland here in the Sand Hills of Nebraska the massive aquafer sits very close to the surface even forming pools of water the proposed route of the pipeline would carry oil right across this permeable landscape that sits a top the Region's drinking water Cindy Meyers has been drinking unfiltered well water straight from the aquafer all her life she took us to a site about 3 km from her house where the pipe would pass through there is a pipeline a transcan a pipeline in eastern Nebraska right now that pipeline's already had 11 confirmed leaks environmentalists are worried too they say the state which is famous for migrating Sand Hill cranes has a fragile ecology that could be disrupted by the pipeline there are thousands of different shore birds and and hundreds of different species of birds that use those Sand Hills Lakes um the grassland birds in this area use the Sand Hills extensively and grassland birds are the largest decline of of a total Suite of species Trans Canada says pipelines already crisscross Nebraska and are the safest way to transport oil and gas but Nebraskans like Randy Thompson say oil installations pose risks now we have a perfect blueprint for what could happen here up in Michigan last July a pipeline accident spilled more than 3 million lers of oil into the Camu River in the state of Michigan the river still being cleaned up final approval for the pipeline can only come from the US government Nebraskans say they understand the country needs new sources of oil but they want Washington to recognize what they're putting at risk Adam rainy Al jazer and the Sand Hills of Nebraska