Print this article Beyond Keystone and Dakota Access, Biden has signaled his administration would make it harder for pipelines to obtain the federal permits they need to be built in the first place, as a way to respond to climate change. Manuel Balce Ceneta
President Biden s pending decision whether to shut down the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline could deepen early tensions between environmentalists and unions that endorsed him.
Biden s day-one order to revoke a permit for the better-known Keystone XL oil pipeline between Canada and the United States drew backlash from organized labor and some centrist Democrats who say the cancellation will kill thousands of construction jobs.
Biden Blocking Keystone Threatens to End Mega Pipelines Era By Gerson Freitas Jr., Rachel Adams-Heard and Ellen Gilmer | January 22, 2021
Joe Biden’s move to block the $9 billion Keystone XL project is the clearest sign yet that constructing a major new pipeline in the U.S. has become an impossible task.
The incoming president has pledged to reshape the U.S. energy sector and accelerate the transition from fossil fuels, and the cancellation of the proposed link to Canada’s oil sands will be one of his first big environmental actions.
Even before Biden’s inauguration Wednesday, the oil and gas industry was on its back foot when it came to building major new infrastructure. Despite Donald Trump’s pro-fossil-fuel policies, energy companies such as Williams Cos. and Dominion Energy Inc. have been forced to scrap new projects in the face of stiff opposition.