Company drops contentious Keystone XL pipeline project
Al JazeeraCritics welcome announcement as a ‘victory’ just months after US President Joe Biden revoked a permit for the pipeline. The company behind a contentious oil pipeline that would have stretched between Canada and the United States has officially abandoned the project, months after US President Joe Biden revoked its permit. Right-wing Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s government invested 1.5 billion Canadian dollars in the Keystone project last year, saying the pipeline was necessary to support the provincial economy. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government had supported Keystone XL, but Trudeau said in January that he accepted Biden’s decision to cancel the project. Kenney, the Alberta premier, said in a statement on Wednesday that his government remained “disappointed and frustrated with the circumstances surrounding the Keystone XL project, including the cancellation of the presidential permit for the pipeline’s border crossing”.
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