Keystone XL Update: President Biden Plans To Axe America’s First All-Renewable Energy Pipeline

Keystone XL Update: President Biden Plans To Axe America’s First All-Renewable Energy Pipeline

Indigenous leaders and climate activists disrupt business at a Chase Bank branch in Seattle on May ... [+] 8, 2017. Demonstrators protested bank funding for the oil sands development and projects like the Keystone XL pipeline. / AFP PHOTO / Jason Redmond (Photo credit should read JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)



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The pushback from Canada I wrote about on Tuesday has apparently fallen on deaf ears for the incoming new administration, and President Joe Biden will likely move to cancel the cross-border permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline System. That move could effectively kill the project to complete the northern leg of the system which would facilitate the import of large volumes of heavy Canadian crude every day for refining in the United States.

The question that too few, if any, in the news media will ask the new President is, why? Why would a President who likes to portray himself as a champion of the environment move to cancel a pipeline that has pledged to turn itself into America's first all-renewable energy interstate/international pipeline system? Other than a simple raw exercise in political power designed to impress one of