"WASHINGTON — Building the $5.3 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline across the middle of the United States will require thousands of workers and millions of pounds of steel.
It will also require a lot of smelly dead rats.".......
........"That means pipeline builder TransCanada Corp. will have to trap and relocate the one-inch beetles, using frozen rats that have thawed for at least three days for maximum pungency, according to detailed protocols U.S. authorities have drawn up to protect the burrowing bug."..........
........."Harms said the government now expects fewer beetles to be affected. Only about 126 are projected to be relocated at least three miles away, according to the biological opinion.
Part of the U.S. plan for the bug will provide a more complete survey of its population, and the Interior Department can amend its rules if TransCanada finds more beetles than anticipated, Harms said."............
