LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Critics of a proposed Canadian oil pipeline worry it could foul a source of drinking water for about 2 million people. But pipeline supporters accuse environmental groups of fear-mongering. Many of the speakers who signed up at Tuesday’s hearing in Lincoln fell into one of two camps: Business and union representatives who say the Keystone XL project will create thousands of jobs and environmentalists, landowners and others concerned it will leak. Pipeline opponent Dan Rudnick of Lincoln said he’d like to see a new route around the Ogallala Aquifer. John Blasingame believes the pipeline will reduce the nation’s dependence on oil from the Middle East. As he put it, “None of these people who are against the pipeline are willing to give up their automobile.” The State Department must approve the pipeline and is expected to decide by the end of the year.