, a decision that comes two weeks after the United States filed a brief in support of South Portland.
PPLC's executive Chris Gillies told Reuters that the South Portland-based company was dismissing its appeal because it does "not currently have any plans to reverse the flow of crude oil in the Portland-Montreal Pipe Line system." In 2015, PPLC and American Waterways Operators kicked off a legal battle with a complaint that accused South Portland of violating the U.S. Constitution's so-called Dormant Commerce Clause, which generally bars states from regulating interstate commerce.
Kristen van de Biezenbos, an assistant professor of energy law at the University of Calgary, said that the case illustrates the ability of cities to adopt bylaws and ordinances that effectively challenge energy infrastructure projects where there is no conflicting state or federal law.
It’s a disgrace that we can’t even build a pipeline in America. The result is more reliance on Saudi, more diesel tankers shipping crude over the ocean, more virtue signaling.
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