Posted on 01/17/2021 7:15:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is planning to cancel the permit for the $9 billion Keystone XL pipeline project as one of his first acts in office, and perhaps as soon as his first day, according to a source familiar with his thinking.
President Donald Trump, a Republican, had made building the pipeline a central promise of his presidential campaign. Biden, who will be inaugurated on Wednesday, was vice president in the Obama administration when it rejected the project as contrary to its efforts to combat climate change.
The words "Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit" appear on a list of executive actions likely scheduled for the first day of Biden's presidency, according to an earlier report https://bit.ly/3nP4993 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC).
Biden, a Democrat, had earlier vowed to scrap the oil pipeline's presidential permit if he became president.
Canada's ambassador to the United States said she would continue to promote a project that she said fit with both countries' environmental plans. "There is no better partner for the U.S. on climate action than Canada as we work together for green transition," Ambassador Kirsten Hillman said in a statement.
The project, which would move oil from the province of Alberta to Nebraska, had been slowed by legal issues in the United States.
It also faced opposition from environmentalists seeking to check the expansion of Canada's oil sands by opposing new pipelines to move its crude to refineries.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said on Twitter that cancellation would eliminate jobs, weaken U.S.-Canada relations and undermine American national security by making the United States more dependent on OPEC oil imports.
TC Energy Corp., which operates the pipeline, said it would achieve net zero emissions by 2023 when it enters service. The company also pledged to use only renewable energy sources by 2030
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With gas at $5 (or more) per gallon the elite will still have their yachts,their private jets and their Australian vacations while we bicycle to work,keep our thermostats at 59 in winter and vacation in our back yards.
Bastard ran as a moderate, now going hard left.
Wants to put us back to four and five dollars a gallon gas.
Enough of that energy independence nonsense. Hope his people are looking forward to $10/gal gas.
Wasn’t Joe the only Senator that voted against the Alaska pipeline?
Well then, expect more oil trains and more oil train derailments. But hey, its all connected.
Disgusting.
Won’t cut back on any “greenhouse gases” - it will just send jobs and wealth out of the country.
You believed he ran as a MODERATE????
I hate to say it but you must be as demented as BRAIN DEAD BIDEN!
Stopping the Keystone Pipeline was part of his agenda he ran on. And he voted against it in 2015 as well. So he’s likely to kill it now. He wants the money.
Stop saying we voted for Biden in Pa....we did not!
No, but that’s the way he appeared. Most people don’t read candidate websites.
Biden will reduce America to the status of a third-world dictatorship where government decisions are reversed years after the fact based on little more than El Presidente’s whim of the day. It will be impossible to make any investment decisions involving the US with any level of certainty* that by the time the project finishes you’ll even be able to operate it. Will he nationalize it, expropriate it by stealth by arbitrarily cancelling your license, or have his blackshirt hit squads destroy it?
*the politically connected excepted, better get Biden’s kids on your board
Yeah
I believe you. PA did not do enough to “contest” the election results.
Wasn’t it “settled law”?
They had permits and everything.
Ukraine and the Middle East will be happy to see an end to US domestic oil production.
>>Canada should sell their oil to China. I suspect they will.
As long as China kicks the Biden Family some big checks for the Big Guy.
No. This is sacred to democrats. I expected Biden to do these things and it’s easy to do - pen and paper.
Of course he will.
And Warren Buffett can go back to making billions moving all that oil.
Nothing like being able to use the government to make your money, as long as you toss a few stacks back to thank those file the help.
What are you talking about.....it was guys in my own community and my representative who were in Harrisburg fighting like crazy....over and over again.. Against Wolf and against this election. They were getting battered by the leftist stronghold on the PA Supreme Court....and they’d turn around and go right back in fighting.
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