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Biden 'to cancel Keystone pipeline on first day' (msn.com)

 

US President-elect Joe Biden is to cancel the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline on his first day in office, North American media report.

 

What is Biden planning to do?

A briefing note seen by Canadian and US media says Mr Biden will sign an executive order revoking the permit for Keystone XL on Inauguration Day - 20 January.

He will also return the US to the Paris climate agreement - a global pact on cutting carbon emissions - reversing another decision by Mr Trump, who took the US out of the accord on 4 November last year.

Mr Biden has pledged to make the fight against climate change a top priority of his administration.

Alberta's leader, Premier Jason Kenney, said he was "deeply concerned" by the reports of Mr Biden's plans and said if the pipeline was cancelled, his government would look at legal action.

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11 hours ago, Twilight Sparkle said:

Kenney: I'm gonna sue the United States of America

 

Rest of canada:

schitts creek good luck GIF by CBC

And waste millions more tax payer dollars... Yay!

 

I have my doubts... but maybe, just maybe this will help wake up Alberta voters to reality.

 

Or they'll just keep digging that hole, clinging to that sad, bass-ackwards ideology :lol::picard:

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23 hours ago, Warhippy said:

Kenney has spent almost $11 billion all told on Keystone in outright cash infusions and backstopped loans to facilitate the pipeline being finished.  His power ends at the border between provinces and nations.

 

Biden outright said almost 18 months ago he'd cancel it.  Kenney STILL wasted billions of Albertan tax dollars on this.

 

Yet somehow.  Someway reading the comments on this, it's Trudeau's fault and Trump is some sort of hero....

Notley was pretty stellar leader.

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3 minutes ago, The Lock said:

True, but it's now because of Kenney there is now more suffering.

 

This is why living under a rock only puts you between a rock and a hard place.

America over the last 12 years has pumped their production full of steroids to the point they're a net exporter of oil and gas.

 

The one thing NOBODY in Alberta seems to consider at all, is that the US has literally zero need or incentive to allow Canadian exports through their country as it will take money out of their pockets.  The US helped destroy the Canadian energy plan in the 80s to ensure that Iran/Iraq/Saudi had no hold over them via energy shocks as they wanted a secure source of oil nobody could hamper.  NAFTA helped cement that.

 

Now they don't need us as they've ramped up everything in their own nation, Biden has not re-enacted protections for oil development areas because he knows there's still a few decades where oil for fuel will be essential.

 

Basically, Alberta signed their own fate back in the 80s and the US has zero need now at all to help them.  Kenney is demanding trade wars and sanctions against the US yet taking no ownership for the waste and lies he foisted upon the people in his province.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/keystone-xl-u-s-oil-supplies-pipeline-alberta-biden-1.5882313

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3 minutes ago, Warhippy said:

America over the last 12 years has pumped their production full of steroids to the point they're a net exporter of oil and gas.

 

The one thing NOBODY in Alberta seems to consider at all, is that the US has literally zero need or incentive to allow Canadian exports through their country as it will take money out of their pockets.  The US helped destroy the Canadian energy plan in the 80s to ensure that Iran/Iraq/Saudi had no hold over them via energy shocks as they wanted a secure source of oil nobody could hamper.  NAFTA helped cement that.

 

Now they don't need us as they've ramped up everything in their own nation, Biden has not re-enacted protections for oil development areas because he knows there's still a few decades where oil for fuel will be essential.

 

Basically, Alberta signed their own fate back in the 80s and the US has zero need now at all to help them.  Kenney is demanding trade wars and sanctions against the US yet taking no ownership for the waste and lies he foisted upon the people in his province.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/keystone-xl-u-s-oil-supplies-pipeline-alberta-biden-1.5882313

Yeah, a lot of this is Alberta lashing out at the world for not seeing their demands... while not fulfilling anyone else's demands. You have to give to get. It's not you just get.

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