BILLINGS, Mont. The Keystone XL is dead after a 12-year attempt to build the oil pipeline, yet the fight over Canadian crude rages on as emboldened environmentalists target other projects and pressure President Joe Biden to intervene all while oil imports from the north keep rising.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) The Keystone XL is dead after a 12-year attempt to build the oil pipeline, yet the fight over Canadian crude rages on as emboldened environmentalists target other projects and pressure President Joe Biden to intervene all while oil imports from the north keep rising. Biden dealt the fatal blow to […]
Even after its death, the divisive Keystone XL pipeline continued to leave Canadian energy industry experts at odds on Thursday, a day after TC Energy Corp. nailed the coffin shut on the project.
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Hannah Konschuh, a grain farmer growing wheat, canola, barley and yellow peas in Albertaâs Wheatland County, has been fighting with oil and gas companies that either havenât paid or are aggressively trying to reduce their leases for the wells that dot her land.
Sheâs not alone. Further south toward Medicine Hat, Ron Huvenaars, a farmer growing barley, wheat and quinoa, and who is also president of the Alberta Surface Rights Federation, says heâs been helping a growing number of Alberta farmers deal with energy companies looking to cut costs by withholding payments to farmers.
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Pipe for the Trans Mountain pipeline is unloaded in Edson, Alta., Tuesday, June 18, 2019. The question of does Canada still need another pipeline outside of Line 3 and Trans Mountain was one federal officials asked days after United States President Joe Biden cancelled the permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson June 04, 2021 - 1:00 AM
OTTAWA - Federal officials were asking themselves how many pipelines does Canada really need in the days after U.S. President Joe Biden cancelled Keystone XL.
The query was posed in a briefing note from Natural Resources Canada and released to The Canadian Press under federal access-to-information legislation.