As spring thaws the Minnesota ice, a new pipeline battle fires up. The next major tar sands conduit was up for approval in 2011. The southern portion of the pipeline, from Oklahoma to Texas, has already been completed. By Nick Cunningham. This portion of the pipeline is called the Gulf Coast Pipeline. “No, it’s not. 21 states file lawsuit against Biden over Keystone pipeline cancellation ... Twenty-one states have filed a lawsuit against President Biden over his canceling of the Keystone XL pipeline, alleging that he overstepped his presidential authority. The climate impact of a complete and fully operational Keystone XL would be drastic. Proposed by TransCanada (now TC Energy) to complement its older Keystone pipeline, Keystone XL would carry up to 800,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to the Gulf Coast. The Keystone Pipeline system has been the subject of controversy for years as environmentalists and others have fought to prevent construction and expansion of this oil-delivery network. “Biden CANCELS Keystone Pipeline on - Day 1… 83k jobs lost,” says another version of the post, on the page of Share to Save America, while the musician Ted Nugent posted that Biden had fired “12,000 folks who’ve been building the XL Keystone Pipeline.” US employment on the pipeline project was forecast to exceed 11,000 workers in 2021. Keystone XL Pipeline Canceled. “If you’re saying the Keystone XL Pipeline matters more, that means there is 71,000 jobs (in the outdoor recreation economy) that don’t matter.” Fourstar, who lives in Wolf Point, said the Fort Peck tribes are worried not only about climate change, but the threat the pipeline poses to a local water system and the health of the community. As Breitbart News reported, one expert said Biden’s other climate change order to stop drilling leasing on public land could cost as many as a million U.S. jobs.. Crabtree posted about it on his Facebook page: “I got laid off for political reasons and stupidity and the future doesn’t look so bright. Thank you for supporting Montana Free Press and being a part of our community. Since it was proposed in 2008, Keystone XL has faced a decade of protest and legal action led by Indigenous communities and involving farmers and ranchers, environmental activists and groups. The XL stands for “export limited.” If completed, KXL would add another 510,000 barrels of capacity. Here’s What It Means for the Future Fight Against Fossil Fuels. Launched by Cowboy and Indian Alliance, the six-day event “Reject and Protect” is aimed at urging President Barack Obama to refuse the project. (Please ignore the file marked ‘Rudy’s List of Crimes He Did.’) It would increase mining by accelerating the production and transportation of crude oil. It runs from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta to refineries in Illinois and Texas, and also to oil tank farms and an oil pipeline distribution center in Cushing, Oklahoma. Proposed by TransCanada (now TC Energy) to complement its older Keystone pipeline, Keystone XL would carry up to 800,000 barrels of oil per day from Alberta to the Gulf Coast. Here’s what it means for the future fight against fossil fuels “Rescinding KXL’s permit is a promising early signal that the new administration is listening to our concerns and will take issues of climate and Indigenous justice seriously. Adam Fondren/Rapid City Journal via AP File “They’ve been fed the notion that somehow dealing with climate is coming at their expense,” Kerry said. Indigenous activists protest a Keystone construction site near the US-Canadian border in Montana in May 2020. Activists staged the protest to urge President Obama to reject the pipeline. The Keystone XL pipeline extension, proposed by energy infrastructure company TC Energy (formerly TransCanada) in 2008, was designed to transport the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel to market—fast. I will not do it because I’ve seen the devastation and the sick people from what a tar sands spill does when there is … Credit: Chesapeake Climate, via Flickr. Updated 0122 GMT (0922 HKT) March 20, 2021 Biden’s decision immediately cost about 11,000 jobs, many of them union jobs. Keystone XL is a 1,210-mile (1,947-km) pipeline that offers a safe, reliable and environmentally responsible way to deliver crude oil to markets in … Absent some dramatic new force in politics, Keystone XL would almost certainly be built. At the protest, John Bolenbaugh, a Keystone employee-turned-pipeline activist from Michigan told HuffPost's Lucia Graves, “I will not accept a job for a tar sands pipeline. Local activists participated in a protest Monday afternoon at Bo Diddley Plaza that called on President Obama to reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The Keystone XL (KXL) Pipeline is the proposed Phase 4 of the Keystone Pipeline system, which already is online with a capacity to carry more than 500,000 barrels per day. It could carry 830,000 barrels of oil each day. President George W. Bush approved the original Keystone pipeline, and it went into service, early in the Obama years, without any real fuss. A Lakota activist speaking at a protest against the Keystone XL pipeline at the Andrew W. Bogue Federal Courthouse in Rapid City, South Dakota on June 12, 2019. A planned 1,179-mile (1,897km) pipeline running from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would join an existing pipe. President Biden’s decision to revoke a permit for Keystone XL likely spells the end of a saga spanning more than 12 years over the pipeline meant to carry Canadian crude to the U.S. Activists hold signs as they protest in front of the White House against the Keystone XL pipeline January 13, 2015 in Washington, DC. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Your donation makes this and all our other local reporting possible. Photograph: Angeline Cheek/AP Thu 28 Jan 2021 06.11 EST Thousands have been marching in Washington DC to protest against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Demonstrators march with a replica of a pipeline during a protest to demand a stop to the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline outside the White House in Washington on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. Within hours of taking office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order rescinding the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Column: Rudy Giuliani is INNOCENT. Most of the Keystone pipeline network, of which it is only one part, has already been built. By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent. by Amanda Eggert 01.21.2021 01.21.2021. Environment; Keystone XL pipeline canceled. March 19, 2021. The Keystone Pipeline System is an oil pipeline system in Canada and the United States, commissioned in 2010 and owned by TC Energy and as of 31 March 2020 the Government of Alberta. Thousands Rally in DC for Major Keystone XL Protest 11/18/2012 12:12 pm ET Updated Dec 06, 2017 The next chapter in the fight against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline begins today with a major protest in Washington, DC. Phase 1 of the Keystone Pipeline was permitted in March 2008. Alberta's Top Official Calls Biden Decision to Stop Keystone Pipeline 'an Insult to Canada' Matthew Impelli 1/25/2021. 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