Biden to bar Keystone pipeline within hours of taking office Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Ari Natter, Bloomberg Jan. 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy is moving forward with plans to build the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline, a project to move heavy crude oil from the tar sands region of Canada to Nebraska where it will then move on to refineries in Illinois and along the Gulf Coast. TC Energy Joe Biden will cancel the Keystone XL oil pipeline hours after becoming president on Wednesday, killing once again a cross-border project that had won a four-year reprieve under his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump.