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Botany

(70,447 posts)
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 09:53 AM Mar 2021

Go 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.

Biden’s 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.

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Go Joe. It looks like he has killed the Keystone Pipeline. Yahoo News. (Original Post) Botany Mar 2021 OP
I hope he squashes Memphis-Byhalia Pipeline! SheltieLover Mar 2021 #1
Fantastic news! Ruby Zee Mar 2021 #2
Ahhh...the majestic beauty of tar sands! ret5hd Mar 2021 #3
Instead of like this: Botany Mar 2021 #4
OK, now show us Disaffected Mar 2021 #5
I agree completely...except the subject at this time was tar sands. ret5hd Mar 2021 #6
Very good. Didn't realize only 90 miles had been laid. Hortensis Mar 2021 #7
And all those people who were working on the pipeline might very well find work on ... Botany Mar 2021 #8
They should. Itm, hopefully there'll be work removing the Hortensis Mar 2021 #10
Good. Bury it wth a shovel Xavier Breath Mar 2021 #9
Good. NT Celerity Mar 2021 #11
Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota is also deserving of national attention dlk Mar 2021 #12

Botany

(70,447 posts)
4. Instead of like this:
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 10:12 AM
Mar 2021


Fixing carbon, clean the air and water, hosting native critters, providing homeland to
people, and supporting renewable recreation too.









Disaffected

(4,545 posts)
5. OK, now show us
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 10:14 AM
Mar 2021

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)
6. I agree completely...except the subject at this time was tar sands.
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 10:16 AM
Mar 2021

As I so often post when the discussion revolves around the outdoors:

Botany

(70,447 posts)
8. And all those people who were working on the pipeline might very well find work on ...
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 10:22 AM
Mar 2021

... Joe's 3 trillion $ infrastructure plan.

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