After Years of Disapproval, Controversial Keystone XL Pipeline Project Finally Trashed

The Keystone XL pipeline, which would have transported petroleum from Canadian tar sands to Nebraska, was canceled on Wednesday by the Canadian pipeline corporation that has long sought to build it.

The 1,179-mile pipeline, which would have transported 800,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada to the Gulf Coast, has become a flashpoint in broader political debates over energy, the environment, and climate change. After years of convincing President Barack Obama that approving the pipeline would be a terrible blow to his efforts to combat climate change, Obama announced in 2015 that his agency would deny the project's construction permit.

Presidential Conflicts

Former President Donald J. Trump, who campaigned on undoing then President Barack Obama's environmental legacy, issued an executive order reversing Obama's decision and permitting the project to proceed two days after his inauguration in 2017. However, in 2018, after some sections of the pipeline had been completed, a federal judge halted further work on the project, claiming that the Trump administration had failed to conduct proper environmental evaluations before reversing the Obama decision. Since then, the project has been essentially stopped.

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