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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGo Joe. It looks like he has killed the Keystone Pipeline. Yahoo News.
In his order revoking the permit, Biden argued that construction of the pipeline would run counter to the goal of transitioning the U.S. to green energy and combating climate change. Despite the new lawsuit and years of back-and-forth jockeying, most experts say this latest move likely marks the death knell for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Bidens decision to shutter the Keystone XL pipeline was celebrated by environmentalists, who had for years warned of the dangers posed by Canadian tar sands oil which takes substantially more energy to extract and is much more difficult to clean up if spilled than traditional crude. Many Native American groups applauded Biden for blocking a project they believe would have impacted their drinking water and violated tribal sovereignty.
A number of energy analysts argued that canceling the pipeline made economic sense as well. In the 12 years since Keystone XL was first proposed, the global price of oil has been cut nearly in half, making it unnecessary for the U.S. to purchase comparatively expensive Canadian imports, they argue.
First proposed in 2008 by the Canadian oil company TC Energy, the 1,200-mile Keystone XL pipeline would carry more than 800,000 gallons of crude per day from oil fields in Canada to Nebraska, where it would connect with existing pipelines that feed refineries on the U.S Gulf Coast. Former President Barack Obama canceled the pipeline in 2015 after years of intense opposition from environmentalists and Native American activists. The Trump administration later reversed that decision in 2017, but legal challenges delayed the start of construction until last summer. By the time the project was scrapped, only about 90 miles of pipeline along the U.S.-Canada border had been built.
https://news.yahoo.com/was-it-the-right-choice-to-cancel-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-151417939.html
BTW "the oil" that they harvest from the tar sands is "bitumen" and it is nasty a gooey tar substance
that has to be heated to make it flow in a pipeline, is all but impossible to clean up if it is spilled (some
spilled in a Michigan River 10+ years ago and it is still not cleaned up, and the forests in Canada where they
mine the tar sands are important as is too.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Ruby Zee
(170 posts)Keep 'em coming Joe!
ret5hd
(20,482 posts)Botany
(70,447 posts)Fixing carbon, clean the air and water, hosting native critters, providing homeland to
people, and supporting renewable recreation too.
Disaffected
(4,545 posts)some of the environmental blights in the US. Maybe start with W Virginia coal mines (the ones where they plow the tops off mountains into the surrounding valleys for instance).
ret5hd
(20,482 posts)As I so often post when the discussion revolves around the outdoors:
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Botany
(70,447 posts)... Joe's 3 trillion $ infrastructure plan.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)infrastructure, cleanup, repair, etc.
Xavier Breath
(3,595 posts)and then bury the shovel.
Celerity
(43,102 posts)dlk
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