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Contentious Keystone XL pipeline project canceled

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Canadian company TC Energy withdraws from Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project after President Biden canceled its permit earlier this year. And, the number of undocumented migrants reaching the US-Mexico border hits its highest level in more than 20 years. Also, Moscow court labels organization of President Putin’s political foe, Alexei Navalny, as an “extremist” group.

Enbridge Energy Line 3 protest

Native tribes in Minnesota pledge to continue fighting new Line 3 pipeline

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President Joe Biden signs his first executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington, DC.

How Biden’s Keystone XL Pipeline cancellation could test US-Canada relations

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Keystone oil spill casts doubt on the safety of proposed Keystone XL pipeline

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Judge halts Keystone XL pipeline, citing ‘complete disregard’ for climate

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Copper and blue colored pipes are shown stacked on their sides in Gascoyne, North Dakota.

A judge has halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline

A federal judge in Montana halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Thursday on the grounds that the US government did not complete a full analysis of the environmental impact of the TransCanada Corp. project.

Valve Turners in Minnesota

The ‘valve turners’: Activists faced jail time to briefly stop the flow of Canadian crude oil

Many environmental activists join rallies or marches, sign petitions and lobby legislators. But some feel the need for more drastic steps. In October 2016, five activists known as the “valve turners” halted the flow of crude oil through four different pipelines along the US-Canada border, knowing they would be arrested and possibly convicted.

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The Keystone XL pipeline gets a victory, but with a question mark

Environment

The final official step to realizing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline was a Nebraska commission’s approval of the pipeline route, which it has now given. But the route is not the one the company preferred.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton departing from Malta found for Tripoli, Libya in October, 2011.

‘There’s a reason that Hillary Clinton has not been emphasizing her international experience’

Conflict

Running on a State Department track record has an upside, and a thorny downside.

Opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline rally in front of the White House on February 24, 2015, the day President Barack Obama vetoed a bill circumventing administration review of the project and mandating its construction.

President Obama’s veto isn’t the end of the Keystone XL story

Environment

President Obama vetoed a bill that would approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, but that still doesn’t mean the project is officially dead. But with collapsed oil prices and a world moving away from fossil fuels, would Keystone’s builders eventually regret it if they do win approval?

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The Keystone XL Pipeline: An International Town Hall