US President Donald Trump wants to revive the project for a controversial oil pipeline called Keystone XL between the US and Canada. The president writes this in a post on his social media, Truth Social.
- Today I had the thought that the company that is building the Keystone XL pipeline, which the incompetent Biden administration dropped, should come back to the US and get it built. If not them, then maybe another pipeline company. We want the Keystone XL pipeline built!, Trump writes in the post.
The Canadian energy company TC Energy dropped the project in 2021 after former US President Joe Biden withdrew an important permit for the project.
The plan to build the oil pipeline had previously met with fierce opposition from environmental activists, and American landowners and indigenous peoples have criticized it. Biden explained the decision to withdraw the permit for the project at the time, citing climate problems.
Large billion-dollar project
The plan was for the Keystone XL oil pipeline to be routed from the Canadian province of Alberta to the US state of Nebraska in 2023 and from there to oil refineries in Texas in the southern United States.
Hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil were to be transported 1,910 kilometers between Canada and the United States. At the time, the project was worth nine billion dollars, which is equivalent to around 64 billion kroner.
The construction of Keystone XL has been stopped several times. Former US President Barack Obama had the plans for the oil pipeline stopped during the latter part of his term in office. Donald Trump then overturned that decision during his first term as president.
In his inauguration speech in January, Trump announced that the United States would significantly increase its production of oil and gas. He has also withdrawn the United States from the Paris Agreement to limit CO2 emissions.
For the next four years, the federal government in the United States will not allow new tenders for offshore wind turbine projects off the American coast, and a temporary halt has been put on approvals for future wind energy projects.
/ritzau/
Text, graphics, images, sound, and other content on this website are protected under copyright law. DK Medier reserves all rights to the content, including the right to exploit the content for the purpose of text and data mining, cf. Section 11b of the Copyright Act and Article 4 of the DSM Directive.
Customers with IP agreements/major customer agreements may only share Danish Offshore Industry articles internally for the purpose of handling specific cases. Sharing in connection with specific cases refers to journaling, archiving, or similar uses.
Customers with a personal subscription/login may not share Danish Offshore Industry articles with individuals who do not themselves have a personal subscription to Danish Offshore Industry.
Any deviation from the above requires written consent from DK Medier.
