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.
Indigenous leaders and environmentalists are urging President Joe Biden to shutdown some of America’s most controversial fossil fuel pipelines, after welcoming his executive order cancelling the Keystone XL (KXL) project. Activists praised Biden’s decision to stop construction of the transnational KXL oil pipeline on his first day in the White House, but they stressed that he must cancel similar polluting fossil fuel projects, including the.
As Biden Axes KXL Pipeline, Water Protectors Urge Him to Reject DAPL and Line 3
An Indigenous Water Protector and an Aitkin County sheriff chat in front of a construction site for Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline near Palisade, Minnesota, on January 9, 2021.
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As President Joe Biden moved to kill a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office Wednesday, Indigenous Water Protectors in Minnesota want to see Biden’s campaign promise extended to another notorious tar sands pipeline project: Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement and expansion, which, like Keystone XL, also crosses an international border and would lock in dangerous, planet-warming pollution.