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In a stunning climate victory, Northwest Innovation Works (NWIW), backers of a controversial fossil fuel processing and export proposal in Kalama, Wash., officially abandoned its fracked gas refinery and pipeline proposal, terminating the company’s lease with the Port of Kalama. The decision comes after years of local and regional activism to stop the massive fracked gas refinery, resulting in a series of legal defeats. In early 2021, Washington state denied a key permit, citing the refinery’s significant climate and shoreline impacts.

Keystone oil pipeline canceled after Biden had blocked permit By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press Published: June 9, 2021, 2:52pm Share: 3 Photos Committee Ranking Member Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WVa., speaks during a hearing to examine the nomination of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich., as she testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee during a hearing to examine her nomination to be Secretary of Energy, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP) Photo Gallery BILLINGS, Mont. — The sponsor of the Keyston...

Andrew Burton/Getty Images TC Energy, the Calgary-based company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, said on Wednesday it is ending the project, after President Biden canceled a key permit and Canadian officials were unable to get him to reverse his decision. The 1,200-mile pipeline would have been able to move up to 35 million gallons of crude daily, carrying it from western Canada to Steele City, Nebraska. The project was first announced in 2008, and environmental groups have been fighting it every step of the way, citing climate change concerns. They cheered Wednesday's news, with Jared Margol...

A $9 billion oil pipeline that became a symbol of the rising political clout of climate change advocates and a flash point in U.S.-Canada relations was…

Calgary-based TC Energy said it would work with government agencies “to ensure a safe termination of and exit from” the partially built line.