The Keystone XL pipeline is dead. Now what?
The Keystone XL may never move any oil, but its impact will still linger in the form of the pipes, worker camps, and other assets stranded along its 1,200-mile path.
Pipe intended for use in the Keystone XL pipeline is stored in a field near the border of Montana and North Dakota. The Keystone project is technically dead after President Joe Biden halted it through executive order on January 20, but the components of the project remain intact, at least for now.Photograph by Sara Hylton
ByAlec Jacobson
Published February 9, 2021
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Within hours of his inauguration on January 20, President Joe Biden walked into the Oval Office, pulled his chair up to the Resolute Desk, and signed a broad executive order to tackle the climate crisis, including a clause that revoked the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline’s construction in the United States.