The Keystone XL pipeline was one of the items on Barack Obama’s legislative kill list. He set into motion plans to stop the project, which was rolled out in 2017 by then-President Trump. Outgoing President Joe Biden also set the ‘kill the pipeline’ plan into motion again, with President-elect Trump vowing to restart it.
The tug-of-war on this massive energy project might have reached another set, but there’s a catch—the company that was the main force behind its construction no longer wants to build it (via Politico):
Donald Trump is looking to revive the Keystone XL oil pipeline on his first day back in the White House, according to three people familiar with the president-elect’s plan, even though no companies are trying to build it anymore.
Trump believes declaring the 1,200-mile Canada-to-Nebraska crude project back on the table would drive the pro-oil message he delivered in his campaign, said people involved in the transition team discussions about the idea. Trump also wants to show he can defy President Joe Biden, who reversed Trump’s initial 2017 approval of the project, which was strongly opposed by the climate movement.
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The pipeline’s permit to cross the U.S.-Canadian border was first rejected in 2015 by President Barack Obama. Trump in 2017 reversed that decision and approved the border crossing — only to have that decision revoked by Biden in January 2021. After that, TC Energy, the pipeline’s developer, said it would no longer pursue its construction.
Calgary-based TC Energy no longer owns the pipeline system that the Keystone XL was intended to complement. And the portions of the pipeline that TC Energy had put in the ground in both Canada and the United States in anticipation of the cross-border permit approval have been dug up. Replacing that pipe would require any company that wants to rebuild it to again obtain local permits for the project.
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But the pro-oil message it would send was something Trump was interested in delivering, the person said, even if an actual pipeline didn’t materialize right away.
“Everyone in the country knows what the KXL pipeline is,” said this person, who was granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. “It’s energy. It’s infrastructure. It’s construction.”
Cry as they may, the people fighting the petroleum industry need to wake up and realize that there will always be a need for oil.
Petroleum is needed in the production of millions of needed products beside just fueling your automobile.
Pull your heads out your butts and do your due diligence.
WHY were portions of it DUG UP????? Who dug them up??? Who PAID to have them dug up??? Who benefited from digging them up??? Was it done legally and above board? Were any lawsuits filed to remove portions??? Were any lawsuits filed AFTER portions were removed???
Come ON, Truth Press, how about some ANSWERS!!!
The article says the company that laid it, pulled it up.